Securing your Google Cloud environment

Once you’ve established the foundational elements of your Google Cloud environment, it’s crucial to focus on security. This involves implementing measures to protect your resources, data, and applications from unauthorized access, threats, and vulnerabilities. Google Cloud offers Security Command Center as a centralized platform for managing security across your entire Google Cloud environment. It helps you detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and respond to incidents. The Google Cloud setup process will automatically recommend that you enable Security Command Center. The Standard tier is free, but Premium tiers incur a cost. You can read more about it in the documentation [9].

Enabling APIs and setting up quotas

Each Google Cloud service (such as BigQuery or Gemini on Vertex AI) is an API exposed by Google Cloud. By default, most of the APIs are disabled on a project level to prevent accidental usage of such a service...