Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Exam

Using Data Loss Prevention (DLP) scans with Cloud Functions is crucial for ensuring compliance and protection for sensitive logs. DLP allows organizations to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data contained within logs. By integrating DLP scans, you can identify confidential information such as personally identifiable information (PII) or financial data, and enforce policies to redact or encrypt this information before it is logged or stored.

This proactive approach not only helps in achieving compliance with various regulations (such as GDPR or HIPAA) that mandate the protection of sensitive data but also reduces the risk of data breaches by ensuring that sensitive information is not exposed in logs. DLP scans can provide alerts about potential violations, enabling timely actions to mitigate risks.

Other options fall short in providing the same level of automated protection and compliance assurance. For example, request logs based on user access may track who accessed what data but do not actively prevent sensitive information from being logged improperly. Manual log reviews can be resource-intensive and may not catch all sensitive data, leading to potential compliance violations. Shared log alerts can inform teams about log activity, but they do not provide the necessary safeguards and classifications that DLP scans can implement efficiently.