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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 Become an expert and get Google Cloud certified with this practitioner's guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468869
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Kulkarni Prashant Kulkarni
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Ankush Chowdhary Ankush Chowdhary
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: About the GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam FREE CHAPTER 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

Cloud HSM

Cloud HSM is a cloud-hosted HSM service that allows you to host encryption keys and perform cryptographic operations in a cluster of FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified HSMs. The Cloud HSM cluster is managed by Google for you; you do not get access to the physical device. You also do not need to patch or scale it for multi-regional applications. Cloud HSM uses Cloud KMS as its frontend; you use Cloud KMS APIs to interact with the Cloud HSM backend. This abstracts the communication with Cloud HSM, so you do not need to use Cloud HSM-specific code.

When you use HSM-backed keys and key versions, the Google Cloud project that makes the cryptographic request incurs cryptographic operation quota usage, and the Google Cloud project that contains the HSM keys incurs HSM QPM quota usage.

Note

You can find more information on Cloud KMS in the Google Cloud documentation for quotas.

Here are some architectural characteristics of Cloud HSM that you should be aware of:

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