From the course: Google Cloud Security for Beginners: Tools and Services
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IAM best practices - Google Cloud Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Security for Beginners: Tools and Services
IAM best practices
- [Instructor] Now that you have a foundational understanding of identity and access management, let's go over some best practices you should keep in mind when implementing IAM in the Google Cloud. First, always implement the principle of least privilege. This principle implements the idea that a user, program or process should only have the bare minimum privileges necessary to do their job successfully. Secondly, create separate service accounts for each user. Sometimes there will be multiple components of your application that require different types of access. Instead of creating one service account to service all of these needs it's best practice to create a separate service account for each service granting only the necessary permissions it needs. Third, rotate user managed service accounts periodically. In this chapter, we learned about service accounts which is a resource identity that can belong to an application…
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