From the course: Cloud Security and Audit Fundamentals: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

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Identity and access management in GCP

Identity and access management in GCP

- [Instructor] Let us get into Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Google IAM is a comprehensive identity and access management service from Google Cloud for managing identities and access to resources. In Google Cloud IAM permissions to access a resource such as a project are not granted directly to the user. The permissions are granted into roles, and the roles are granted to an authenticated principle. A principle is an identity that interacts with Google Cloud. It could be a Google account, a service account, amongst others. Let me demonstrate this concept. Let us go to Google IAM. You can select your project from here. So we can already see our project is called LinkedIn Learning Project1. We can click on Grant Access. You can see our resources listed here, LinkedIn Learning Project1. We can add a principle and then assign a role. So let's add in our principle here. The user we will be using, instructor…

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