Overview of Cloud Identity

Google Cloud Identity is different from some of the other cloud security products that we will cover in this book. What makes it different is that it covers two different platforms: Google Workspace and Google Cloud. Google Workspace is out of scope as it’s not covered in the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam; the features and aspects that we will cover will only pertain to the use of Cloud Identity with regard to Google Cloud.

First, let’s understand a few aspects of Cloud Identity. Cloud Identity is accessed via a separate console (admin.google.com). Cloud Identity is also the first product that you will interact with when you configure your Google Cloud environment, as the super administrator account exists in Cloud Identity. There’ll be more on the super administrator account later in this chapter. Cloud Identity only provides an authentication service and not authorization. The authorization aspect is covered by...