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About the GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam
The rate of migration to the cloud is growing exponentially. The cloud is something of a Masai Mara right now, and we don’t expect that this will slow down. New projects are often now born in the cloud and end up staying there.
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The Masai Mara is an iconic African savanna landscape characterized by an annual wildebeest and zebra migration of over 1.5 million animals.
This growing trend has created new opportunities, specifically for cloud security. There is now soaring demand for cloud security professionals. It is not news to those in the field of cybersecurity that cloud security skills are not only in demand but scarce. Cybersecurity professionals with cloud security skills are now very sought after. Security used to be the number one obstacle to organizations moving to the cloud. Now, security is the top reason that organizations want to move to the cloud. This only increases the demand for cloud security professionals.
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For more details see 13 Cloud Computing Risks & Challenges Businesses Are Facing In These Days by Bernardita Calzon, published on June 6, 2022 on the datapine website (https://packt.link/xlnX6).
The aim of this book is to help cloud security professionals to pass the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam. The topics covered in this book not only include exam-specific content but also extend to some optional GCP cloud security topics.
This chapter covers why you should take this exam, how to register, and what to expect in the exam.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- The benefits of being a certified cloud security engineer
- How to register for the exam
- What to expect and some helpful tips
