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Advanced Network Security
In this chapter, we will look at advanced network security. This chapter is an extension of the previous chapter and part of the overall network security domain. The chapter will focus more on how to secure your Google Cloud environment using the advanced network security features that are available on Google Cloud. In this chapter, we will be discussing context-aware security and its related topics, such as Identity-Aware Proxy and Private Google Access. We will explore their purpose and learn how to configure them for various use cases.
After that, we will look at Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), where you can define a context-aware approach to secure your cloud resources. To secure your web applications on Google Cloud, we will look at web application firewalls, followed by learning how you can use services such as Cloud Armor to protect your environment from distributed denial-of-service attacks. We conclude this chapter by looking at...