GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Question

Your organization discovers that a Cloud Storage bucket named "corp-secure-data" contains thousands of objects whose ACLs unintentionally grant allUsers read access. Only members of the Google Group [email protected] should be able to read any existing or future objects in this bucket, and you must ensure object owners cannot re-introduce public ACLs. A different bucket, "public-assets", currently uses object-level ACLs for signed URLs and must remain unchanged. Which approach meets these requirements with the least ongoing operational effort?

Enable uniform bucket-level access on both buckets, then add an object-level READER ACL for the Google Group on every object in "corp-secure-data".
Keep fine-grained access on "corp-secure-data", write a daily script that removes all allUsers ACL entries and adds a READER ACL for the Google Group to each new object, leaving both buckets otherwise unchanged.
Apply project-level Public Access Prevention, leave current ACLs on "corp-secure-data" unchanged, and add a bucket-level READER ACL for the Google Group; keep "public-assets" as is.
Enable and lock uniform bucket-level access on "corp-secure-data", then grant the Google Group the roles/storage.objectViewer role on that bucket via IAM; make no changes to "public-assets".

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Enabling and locking uniform bucket-level access on the "corp-secure-data" bucket immediately disables the evaluation of all object ACLs, so the legacy public grants become ineffective without any need to edit each object. After ACLs are ignored, access is controlled exclusively by Cloud IAM. Granting the Google Group the predefined roles/storage.objectViewer role on the bucket supplies the required read permission for both existing and new objects. Because you change only the target bucket, the "public-assets" bucket that relies on fine-grained ACLs for signed URLs is untouched and continues to function. The other options either break the public-assets use case, rely on object ACLs that are ignored when uniform access is enabled, or require continual scripting and maintenance to keep unwanted ACLs from reappearing.

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