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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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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Overview of Secret Manager

Secret Manager allows you to store and access secrets as binary blobs. It uses IAM permissions to grant access to the secrets and be able to manage them. Secret Manager is used for applications running on Google Cloud to store information such as database passwords, API keys, or certificates.

Note

Cryptographic keys should not be stored in Secret Manager. Cloud KMS is a better service since it allows you to encrypt the key material.

Before we start using Secret Manager, let us go over some core concepts. This will help you understand how Secret Manager works so you can make the right decision for your workloads.

Secret Manager concepts

Let us look at some key definitions related to Secret Manager as defined in the Google Cloud documentation:

  • Secret: A secret is an object at the project level that stores a collection of metadata and secret versions. The metadata includes replication locations, labels, and permissions.
  • Version: A...
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