GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

Your company runs a customer-facing ecommerce application on regional GKE clusters in us-central1 and europe-west1. Traffic is served through a global external HTTP(S) load balancer with Cloud CDN enabled. The security team requires (1) automatic mitigation of large-scale DDoS and OWASP Top 10 attacks at the edge and (2) detection of command-and-control or malware traffic inside the VPC without installing host agents. Which solution meets both requirements with minimal ongoing operations?

  • Use Cloud CDN signed URLs to absorb DDoS attacks and analyze VPC Flow Logs in Cloud Logging and Security Command Center to detect malicious traffic patterns.

  • Create a bastion host secured by OS Login, add rate-limiting VPC firewall rules on the load balancer, and use Packet Mirroring to send traffic to a self-managed Suricata IDS cluster.

  • Replace the HTTP(S) load balancer with a TCP Proxy Load Balancer that has Google-managed protection enabled and rely on GKE network policies for internal threat detection.

  • Attach a Cloud Armor policy with adaptive DDoS protection and WAF rules to the HTTP(S) load balancer and create Cloud IDS endpoints in each regional subnet to monitor VPC traffic.

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