Professional Cloud Security Engineer
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A security engineer is establishing access governance for automated multi-cloud pipelines and internal workloads that deploy infrastructure into Google Cloud. The architecture must satisfy the following security requirements:
Which set of actions should the security engineer implement?
This architecture combines Google Cloud Organization Policy constraints, Workload Identity Federation, and resource-level IAM role bindings to establish secure credential delegation and completely remove static keys.
constraints/iam.disableServiceAccountKeyCreation Organization Policy at the root or folder level strictly prevents administrators and developers from creating new user-managed JSON or P12 service account private keys.roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator) role directly on individual target service accounts (instead of at the project or organization level) allows designated callers to impersonate the target service account and mint short-lived OAuth 2.0 access tokens with granular scope.roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator on the specific service account resource prevents calling principals from impersonating all other service accounts within the project.This approach aligns with Google Cloud's security best practices by replacing long-lived credentials with short-lived tokens, enforcing organizational guardrails, and scoping impersonation authority to specific service account resources.
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