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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

You're reading from  Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468869
Pages 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Ankush Chowdhary Ankush Chowdhary
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Prashant Kulkarni Prashant Kulkarni
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: About the GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam 2. Chapter 2: Google Cloud Security Concepts 3. Chapter 3: Trust and Compliance 4. Chapter 4: Resource Management 5. Chapter 5: Understanding Google Cloud Identity 6. Chapter 6: Google Cloud Identity and Access Management 7. Chapter 7: Virtual Private Cloud 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Network Security 9. Chapter 9: Google Cloud Key Management Service 10. Chapter 10: Cloud Data Loss Prevention 11. Chapter 11: Secret Manager 12. Chapter 12: Cloud Logging 13. Chapter 13: Image Hardening and CI/CD Security 14. Chapter 14: Security Command Center 15. Chapter 15: Container Security 16. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam I
17. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam II 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Service accounts

Google Cloud service accounts are a critical part of the platform. A cloud resource or workload uses a specific type of account. To make API calls, an application deployed (for example, Compute Engine, App Engine, or GKE) or a workload (Dataproc, Dataflow, and so on) utilizes service accounts. Using a service account as an identity, the application can access cloud resources (either in the same or a different project) based on the role it has been assigned.

There are some main differences between a service account and a user account:

  • Service accounts have no ability to log in to the Cloud console like a normal user.
  • Public and private RSA key pairs are used to authenticate the service account and sign the API request.
  • A service account can be impersonated by a human or another service account.
  • Service accounts are not visible in Cloud Identity because they belong to the Google Cloud managed domain. While service accounts can be added to a Google...
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