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An enterprise financial organization is preparing for an upcoming regulatory audit. The external compliance auditors have requested formal evidence of the underlying cloud provider's security posture, specifically requiring:
Which Google Cloud resource should the cloud architect leverage to acquire these third-party compliance reports and attestation letters?
Google Cloud Artifact (and the Compliance Reports Manager within the Compliance Resource Center) is Google Cloud's centralized portal for customers to access and download security and compliance documentation. It provides direct, self-service access to third-party audit reports, certifications, letters of attestation, and bridge letters that validate Google Cloud's shared responsibility posture.
Under the cloud shared responsibility model, customers inherit Google Cloud's baseline security controls. To satisfy regulatory auditors regarding infrastructure controls that customers do not manage directly, organizations must present Google's independent third-party audit reports and attestations obtained through the Compliance Resource Center.
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