GCP security controls and tools

Let’s get into the applications and features Google makes available to GCP customers for the sake of improving their security. Your organization really ought to be using them! Then, we’ll get into some useful third-party security tools.

Security controls

Google provides a lot of useful applications that can help us manage our security posture in GCP. Let’s have a look at them.

Identity and Access Management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) (https://cloud.google.com/iam) is one of the crucial cloud security components, and GCP is no exception.

Users and groups of users are granted certain permissions and rights regarding what they’re allowed to do with your organization’s files, applications, and other sorts of cloud resources. Your organization should implement the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP), so users and groups only have as much access as they need to perform their jobs, and no more.

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