JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser.

Cookies make our website work. Get more info here

Security in Google Cloud Platform

Want to understand how to deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud Platform solution? This two-day instructor led course will help.

2 day course

Supporting material

Classroom, Virtual, Private

Classroom

Face to face, interactive classroom training run from our global training centres.

Virtual Classroom

A convenient and interactive learning experience, that enables you to attend on of our courses from the comfort of your own home or anywhere you can log on. We offer Virtual Classroom on selected live classroom courses where this will appear as an option under the location drop down if available. These can also be booked as Private Virtual Classrooms for exclusive business sessions.

Private

A private training session for your team. Groups can be of any size, at a location of your choice including our training centres.

As a Google Cloud Partner, we’ll share our years of industry experience to help you understand the Google approach to security.

On this course you’ll gain an understanding of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, you’ll explore and deploy the components of a secure GCP solution.

You’ll learn mitigation techniques for attacks at many points in a GCP-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use.

This Security on Google Cloud Platform course is available at our training centre in The Shard, London. We also offer private training at a location of your choice or via Virtual Classroom.

Course overview

Who should attend:

Cloud information security analysts, architects, and engineers
Information security/cybersecurity specialists
Cloud infrastructure architects
Developers of cloud applications

By the end of the course (run over two consecutive days) you’ll have a deeper understanding of the main networking infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform and how you can use these solutions to achieve business objectives.

Walk away with the ability to:

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
Analysing 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 VM

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course you should have completed the Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure and the Networking in Google Cloud Platform courses, or have equivalent experience.
You will need to have knowledge of the foundational concepts in information security, as well as basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments. It is also recommended you have Systems Operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment.

Course agenda

Part I: Managing Security in Google Cloud Platform

Module 1: Foundations of GCP Security

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

Module 2: Cloud Identity

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

Module 3: Identity and Access Management

GCP Resource Manager: projects, folders, and organisations
GCP IAM roles, including custom roles
GCP IAM policies, including organisation policies
GCP IAM best practices

Module 4: 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

Module 5: Monitoring, Logging, Auditing, and Scanning

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

Part II: Mitigating Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud Platform

Module 6: 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
Organisation 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

Module 7: 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 authorised views
BigQuery IAM roles
Best practices, including preferring IAM permissions over ACLs

Module 8: 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

Module 9: 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

Module 10: 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

Book this course

Other options available

Private classes

Call our sales team today

All of our scheduled courses are available as private sessions, tailored to the needs of your team. These can be delivered at our own training centres globally, any location of your choice or via Virtual Classroom.

LEARN MORE

Enterprise Solutions

Whether you employ ten or ten thousand employees, our enterprise training solutions can be designed to suit your organisations learning needs.