QuestionQ101

Securing communications and establishing boundary protection

Your organization operates a critical web application on Google Cloud that serves international customers. Rising malicious traffic aimed at this application has strained resources and resulted in periods of downtime. You need to design security controls to improve the application's resilience to web attacks, strengthen perimeter protection, and provide access control. What should you do?

  • A Employ network load balancing for traffic distribution. Update Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) policies to allow only administrative access. Implement custom firewall rules on all external IP addresses.
  • B Set up firewall rules on Compute Engine instances within the application's environment. Rely on load balancers for threat detection. Increase instance resources to cope with attack volume.
  • C Configure firewall rules to block traffic from known malicious IP ranges. Set up Google Cloud Armor and implement Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for granular access control.
  • D Add firewall rules that restrict all internal IP ranges. Establish Cloud DNS security policies. Disable external IP addresses to reduce the attack surface. Create user groups for access control.
Explanation

Google Cloud Armor security policies protect applications behind load balancers from DDoS and other web-based attacks. Firewall rules can block traffic from known malicious IP ranges, and Identity-Aware Proxy enforces granular, identity-based authorization to the application.

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