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Cloud IAM Google Cloud

Once you have identified who a user is (authenticated them) using Cloud Identity, the next step is to define what they can do on Google Cloud (authorize them) so they can access the resources they are permitted to use. Access control for Google Cloud resources is managed by Cloud IAM policies for humans and by service accounts for non-humans (applications and services). Let’s take a closer look at Cloud IAM and service accounts.   What is Cloud IAM?  Cloud IAM helps define who can do what and where on Google Cloud. It provides fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally…
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Identity & Access Management: Authentication With Cloud Identity

In security, the three “A”s of controlling access are Authentication (Who is the user?), Authorization (What is the user allowed to do?), and Auditing (What are they doing?) Going a bit deeper: Authentication (AuthN): Authentication is the process of identifying a user through a private form of verification (for example, a password, a certificate, a key, and so on). In Google Cloud, Cloud Identity performs authentication. Authorization (AuthZ): Authentication on its own provides no set of permissions; authorization is used to set permissions that a user is allocated post authentication. In Google Cloud, Cloud IAM is used for authorization (and…
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Cloud Domains, Now GA, Makes It Easy To Register And Manage Custom Domains

In February, we announced Cloud Domains, which makes it easy for Google Cloud customers to register new domains. Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloud Domains is in general availability. We created Cloud Domains with the goal of simplifying domain-related tasks, and we’ve continued to build on the initial release with new functionality. Click to enlarge Cloud Domains allows you to manage access controls for domains through Cloud IAM and manage your domain registrations and renewals through Cloud Billing, for a more seamless experience with the rest of Google Cloud. Cloud Domains is also tightly integrated with Cloud DNS. In just one click, you can…
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4 Best Practices For Ensuring Privacy And Security Of Your Data In Cloud Storage

Cloud storage enables organizations to reduce costs and operational burden, scale faster, and unlock other cloud computing benefits. At the same time, they must also ensure they meet privacy and security requirements to restrict access and protect sensitive information. Security is a common concern we hear from companies as they move their data to the cloud, and it’s a top priority for all our products. Cloud Storage offers simple, reliable, and cost-effective storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time, with built-in security capabilities such as encryption in transit and at rest and a range of encryption…
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Building More Secure Data Pipelines With Cloud Data Fusion

For those of you working in data analytics, ETL and ELT pipelines are an important piece of your data foundation. Cloud Data Fusion is our fully managed data integration service for quickly building and managing data pipelines. Cloud Data Fusion is built on the open source project CDAP, and this open core lets you build portable data pipelines. A CDAP server might satisfy your need to run a few simple data pipelines. But when it comes to securing a larger number of business-critical data pipelines, you’ll often need to put a lot more effort into logging and monitoring those pipelines. You…
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