From the course: Google Cloud Security for Beginners: Tools and Services
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Define and apply IAM policies - Google Cloud Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Security for Beginners: Tools and Services
Define and apply IAM policies
- Policies are the glue in identity and access management. Policies you create are made up of bindings that control access to your Google Cloud resources. There are three factors that make up a policy. They are members, their role and the logic condition that dictates access to a resource. The identity and access management resource hierarchy pillars are important to understand and architect correctly because policies can be set at either the organization, folder, project and in some cases, the resource level. Not creating your IAM resource hierarchy correctly can trickle the wrong access, posing potential security risk to your organization. Let's take a closer look at the three factors that make up a policy. First, we have members. A member can be defined as the following; any user account, such as an employee, a service account for any of your Google Cloud resources, a Google Group, for example, a group of people who…
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