This course gives students broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud Platform. Through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, students explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution. Students also learn mitigation techniques for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use.
 

Upon completion of the Security in Google Cloud Platform course, students will be able to:

• Understanding the Google approach to security
• Managing administrative identities using Cloud Identity
• Implementing least privilege administrative access using Google Cloud Resource Manager, Cloud IAM
• Implementing IP traffic controls using VPC firewalls and Cloud Armor
• Implementing Identity Aware Proxy
• Analyzing changes to the configuration or metadata of resources with GCP audit logs
• Scanning for and redact sensitive data with the Data Loss Prevention API
• Scanning a GCP deployment with Forseti
• Remediating important types of vulnerabilities, especially in public access to data and VMs

PART I: Managing Security in Google Cloud Platform

Foundations of GCP Security

• Google Cloud's approach to security
• The shared security responsibility model
• Threats mitigated by Google and by GCP
• Access Transparency

Cloud Identity

• Cloud Identity
• Syncing with Microsoft Active Directory
• Choosing between Google authentication and SAML-based SSO
• GCP best practices

Identity and Access Management

• GCP Resource Manager: projects, folders, and organizations
• GCP IAM roles, including custom roles
• GCP IAM policies, including organization policies
• GCP IAM best practices

Configuring Google Virtual Private Cloud for Isolation and Security

• Configuring VPC firewalls (both ingress and egress rules)
• Load balancing and SSL policies
• Private Google API access
• SSL proxy use
• Best practices for structuring VPC networks
• Best security practices for VPNs
• Security considerations for interconnect and peering options
• Available security products from partners

Monitoring, Logging, Auditing, and Scanning

• Stackdriver monitoring and logging
• VPC flow logs
• Cloud audit logging
• Deploying and Using Forseti

Securing Compute Engine: techniques and best practices

• Compute Engine service accounts, default and customer-defined
• IAM roles for VMs
• API scopes for VMs
• Managing SSH keys for Linux VMs
• Managing RDP logins for Windows VMs
• Organization policy controls: trusted images, public IP address, disabling serial port
• Encrypting VM images with customer-managed encryption keys and with customer-supplied encryption keys
• Finding and remediating public access to VMs
• VM best practices
• Encrypting VM disks with customer-supplied encryption keys

Securing cloud data: techniques and best practices

• Cloud Storage and IAM permissions
• Cloud Storage and ACLs
• Auditing cloud data, including finding and remediating publicly accessible data
• Signed Cloud Storage URLs
• Signed policy documents
• Encrypting Cloud Storage objects with customer-managed encryption keys and with customer-supplied encryption keys
• Best practices, including deleting archived versions of objects after key rotation
• BigQuery authorized views
• BigQuery IAM roles
• Best practices, including preferring IAM permissions over ACLs

Protecting against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: techniques and best practices

• How DDoS attacks work
• Mitigations: GCLB, Cloud CDN, autoscaling, VPC ingress and egress firewalls, Cloud Armor
• Types of complementary partner products

Application Security: techniques and best practices

• Types of application security vulnerabilities
• DoS protections in App Engine and Cloud Functions
• Cloud Security Scanner
• Threat: Identity and Oauth phishing
• Identity Aware Proxy

Content-related vulnerabilities: techniques and best practices

• Threat: Ransomware
• Mitigations: Backups, IAM, Data Loss Prevention API
• Threats: Data misuse, privacy violations, sensitive/restricted/unacceptable content
• Mitigations: Classifying content using Cloud ML APIs; scanning and redacting data using Data Loss Prevention API

This class is intended for the following job roles:

• [Cloud] information security analysts, architects, and engineers
• Information security/cybersecurity specialists
• Cloud infrastructure architects

Additionally, the course is intended for Google and partner field personnel who work with customers in those job roles. The course should also be useful to developers of cloud applications.
 

No certification available.

• Prior completion of Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or equivalent experience
• Prior completion of Networking in Google Cloud Platform or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of foundational concepts in information security: Fundamental concepts: vulnerability, threat, attack surface, confidentiality, integrity, availability
• Common threat types and their mitigation strategies
• Public-key cryptography: Public and private key pairs, Certificates, Cipher types, Key width
• Certificate authorities
• Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer encrypted communication
• Public key infrastructures
• Security policy
• Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
• Systems Operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment
• Reading comprehension of code in Python or JavaScript