An organization is migrating its financial transaction processing workloads to Google Cloud and preparing for an upcoming PCI DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliance audit. The target environment includes: Compute Engine instances (IaaS) running custom transaction processing applications Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (PaaS) storing encrypted customer account records Google Workspace (SaaS) used by compliance analysts to review audit summaries To establish the compliance boundaries and satisfy auditor requirements, which approach correctly maps the shared responsibility model across these service tiers and identifies the appropriate compliance artifact retrieval process?

Manage guest OS patching, network firewalls, and application configurations on Compute Engine; configure database access controls and schema encryption on Cloud SQL; enforce identity and user access policies in Google Workspace; and obtain Google's PCI Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and SOC 2 Type II reports from the Compliance Reports Manager.: ### What the Solution Is In the Google Cloud **shared responsibility model**, compliance and operational obligations vary significantly across **Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)**, **Platform as a Service (PaaS)**, and **Software as a Service (SaaS)** models. To validate compliance for cloud-hosted environments, customers must manage their scoped responsibilities while leveraging **Google Cloud Compliance Reports Manager** (or designated compliance resources) to download independent third-party attestations like SOC 2 reports and PCI Attestation of Compliance (AOC) documents. ### How It Meets the Requirements - **IaaS (Compute Engine)**: Google manages physical data center security, host hardware, and the hypervisor layer. The customer retains full responsibility for the guest operating system, OS security patching, firewall rules, and application-level hardening. - **PaaS (Cloud SQL)**: Google assumes responsibility for the underlying VM provisioning, OS maintenance, database engine binary patching, and hardware reliability. The customer is responsible for logical access management (IAM and database users), database connection security (SSL/TLS), table-level access, and data configuration. - **SaaS (Google Workspace)**: Google manages the entire infrastructure, application software, and service availability. The customer is responsible for identity governance, multi-factor authentication (MFA), context-aware access policies, and data classification. - **Compliance Evidence**: Independent third-party audit reports, including Google's **SOC 1/2/3 reports** and **PCI DSS AOC**, provide the necessary verification of Google's underlying control environment to regulatory bodies and external auditors. ### Key Advantages and Capabilities - **Clear Audit Demarcation**: Allows the security team to accurately scope customer-controlled audit requirements versus provider-certified controls. - **Automated Evidence Collection**: Provides direct access to current audit certificates and third-party reports via compliance management portals. - **Reduced Operational Overhead**: Leveraging PaaS and SaaS shifts infrastructure and runtime patching responsibilities to Google, reducing the customer's direct PCI DSS control surface. ### Why This Is Optimal This solution correctly delineates control ownership at each specific cloud service abstraction level and establishes a defensible audit trail using official third-party compliance attestations.

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An organization is migrating its financial transaction processing workloads to Google Cloud and preparing for an upcoming PCI DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliance audit. The target environment includes:

Compute Engine instances (IaaS) running custom transaction processing applications
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (PaaS) storing encrypted customer account records
Google Workspace (SaaS) used by compliance analysts to review audit summaries

To establish the compliance boundaries and satisfy auditor requirements, which approach correctly maps the shared responsibility model across these service tiers and identifies the appropriate compliance artifact retrieval process?

Manage guest OS patching, network firewalls, and application configurations on Compute Engine; configure database access controls and schema encryption on Cloud SQL; enforce identity and user access policies in Google Workspace; and obtain Google's PCI Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and SOC 2 Type II reports from the Compliance Reports Manager.

Delegate the physical data center audits and hypervisor vulnerability remediation to the internal security team, and execute manual on-site inspections of Google Cloud facilities to satisfy PCI DSS physical security requirements.

Rely on Google's PCI DSS certification to inherit full compliance across Compute Engine guest operating systems and Cloud SQL database engines, and submit a customer penetration test exemption request through the Google Cloud console.

Enforce customer-managed operating system patch cycles on Cloud SQL instances, configure VPC Service Controls across Google Workspace user identities, and rely on Cloud Logging without obtaining third-party compliance reports.

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Shared Responsibility Pci Soc2 Service Tiers

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