Google Compute Engine Analysis

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1GOOGLE COMPUTE ENGINE ANALYSIS
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Assets.........................................................................................................................................3
Threats........................................................................................................................................3
Vulnerabilities............................................................................................................................4
Security objectives.....................................................................................................................5
Controls or security measures....................................................................................................6
Risk Evaluation..........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography...............................................................................................................................8

2GOOGLE COMPUTE ENGINE ANALYSIS
Introduction
Google compute engine is a product developed by Google based on the infrastructure
service and is provided included as a part in the Google cloud platform bundle. The engine of
this product is made of three primary components which are persistent disks, networks and
virtual machines. The software is widely available and used in multiple Google datacentres
around the worldwide and is an exclusive service which is only available on demand. The
core component of the computing engine is the virtual machines running the engine
comprising of hundreds of high performance virtual machines running with the help of
thousands of virtual CPU cores. The workload handled by the computing engine is scalable
due to the different configurations of virtual machines involved in the system. The second
core component are the persistent disks or PDs which is a network based storage device used
by the VMs to store data. This is a very important component from the security point of view
because of its critical storage nature as it also works and protects data in case of hardware
failures. These persistent disks can be offered in the form of solid state disks to increase
performance.
Each virtual machine can have access to up to 16 PDs with a total storage of 10
terabytes of data. The third and the last component is the network and firewall which forms
the integral part of the security system of the Google compute engine. The networks are
channels through which the VMs connect to the external world. The network also creates
channels to communicate with the PDs. The core bandwidth of the Google compute engine
network is at 2Gbits/sec. A cloud project can have multiple VM instances but only one
network exists per VM. Each network given has integrated firewall capacity and is protected
by certain rules which allows only authorised access to the network connected devices. The
protocols for allowing is decided by the project managers as per their requirements. The