Chapter 6 Security

Question 1

What is

IAM

Answer 1

Identity and access management

Cloud IAM is Google Cloud’s fine-grained identity and access management service that is
used to control which users can perform operations on resources within GCP. Cloud IAM
uses the concept of roles, which are collections of permissions that can be assigned to identities.

Permissions are granted to roles, and then individuals can be assigned multiple roles
to gain these permissions.