Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer Premium Exam Questions

To manage consumer user accounts created using the corporate domain name, you can use the transfer tool for unmanaged user accounts provided by Google Cloud Identity. Here’s how you can proceed:

Identify Unmanaged Accounts:

Use the Cloud Identity interface to identify consumer (unmanaged) accounts that exist with your corporate domain.

Initiate Transfer Process:

Use the transfer tool for unmanaged user accounts to initiate the transfer. This tool helps in converting unmanaged accounts (consumer accounts) into managed accounts.

User Notification:

Users with unmanaged accounts will receive an email notification prompting them to accept the transfer to the organization’s managed account system.

Accept Transfer:

Users need to follow the instructions in the email to accept the transfer. Once accepted, their accounts will be managed under your organization’s Cloud Identity setup.

Benefits:

Centralized Management: All user accounts under your corporate domain are managed centrally, ensuring compliance and security.

Enhanced Security: Managed accounts provide better control over security policies and access management.

References

Transfer tool for unmanaged users

Cloud Identity Documentation

Define Trusted Image Projects:

Identify the project or projects where your trusted operating system images are stored.

Ensure these images meet your organization’s security requirements and are regularly updated to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Create an Organization Policy:

Navigate to the Organization Policies page in the Google Cloud Console.

Create a policy constraint that restricts the creation of boot disks to only those images stored in your trusted image project(s).

The policy constraint to use is constraints/compute.trustedImageProjects.

Apply the Policy:

Apply this organization policy at the appropriate level (organization, folder, or project) to enforce that all new VM instances use images from the trusted repository.

This ensures consistency in the security posture across all projects within the organization.

Monitor Compliance:

Regularly monitor the compliance with this policy using audit logs and other monitoring tools.

Update the trusted images as necessary to ensure they remain secure and compliant with your security standards.

This approach allows you to leverage your existing on-premises PKI infrastructure while minimizing its impact and manual processes. By creating a subordinate CA in Google’s Certificate Authority Service, you can automate the process of issuing certificates for your HTTP load balancer frontends. This solution scales well as the number of load balancers increases.

Use Google Shielded VM including secure boot Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) and integrity monitoring: Shielded VMs provide verifiable integrity of the VM by ensuring that it was not tampered with or compromised at the boot level. They use features like Secure Boot, vTPM, and integrity monitoring to detect and prevent malicious changes to the VM's operating system and firmware.

Activate Confidential Computing: Confidential Computing provides a secure environment for processing sensitive data. It uses hardware-based enclaves to protect data in use by ensuring it cannot be accessed by the underlying host or any other unauthorized entity. By leveraging Intel SGX or AMD SEV, it ensures that data remains encrypted even when it is being processed.

Enforce these actions by using organization policies: Organization policies can enforce the use of Shielded VMs and Confidential Computing across your organization. This ensures that all VMs comply with these security measures without requiring manual configuration for each VM.

References

Shielded VMs documentation

Confidential Computing documentation

Organization Policies documentation