• Foundations of Google Cloud Security
  • Understand the shared security responsibility model.
  • Understand the kinds of threats mitigated by Google and by Google Cloud.
  • Define and understand access transparency.
• Cloud Identity
  • Learn what Cloud Identity is and what it does.
  • Learn how Directory Sync securely syncs users and permissions between your on-prem LDAP or AD server and the cloud.
  • Understand the two ways Google Cloud handles authentication and how to set up SSO.
  • Explore best practices for managing groups, permissions, domains and admins with Cloud Identity.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Understand Resource Manager: projects, folders, and organizations.
  • Learn how to implement IAM roles, including custom roles.
  • Understand IAM policies, including organization policies.
  • Understand best practices, including separation of duties and least privilege, the use of Google groups in policies, and avoiding the use of basic roles.
  • Learn how to configure IAM, including custom roles and organization policies.
• Configuring Virtual Private Cloud for Isolation and Security
  • Learn best practices for configuring VPC firewalls (both ingress and egress rules).
  • Understand load balancing and SSL policies.
  • Understand how to set up private Google API access.
  • Understand SSL proxy use.
  • Learn best practices for VPC networks, including peering and shared VPC use, and the correct use of subnetworks.
  • Learn best security practices for VPNs.
  • Understand security considerations for interconnect and peering options.
  • Become familiar with available security products from partners.
  • Learn to configure VPC firewalls.
  • Prevent data exfiltration with VPC Service Controls.
• Securing Compute Engine: Techniques and Best Practices
  • Learn about Compute Engine service accounts, default and customer-defined.
  • Understand IAM roles and scopes for VMs.
  • Understand how Shielded VMs help maintain your system and application integrity.
• Securing Cloud Data: Techniques and Best Practices
  • Use cloud permissions and roles to secure cloud resources.
  • Audit cloud data.
  • Use signed URLs to give access to objects in a Cloud Storage bucket.
  • Manage what can be placed in a Cloud Storage bucket using Signed Policy Document.
  • Encrypt cloud data using customer managed encryption keys (CMEK), customer supplied encryption keys (CSEK), and Cloud HSM.
  • Protecting data in BigQuery using IAM roles and authorized views.
• Application Security: Techniques and Best Practices
  • Recall various types of application security vulnerabilities.
  • Understand DoS protections in App Engine and Cloud Functions.
  • Understand the role of Web Security Scanner in mitigating risks.
  • Define and recall the threats posed by Identity and Oauth phishing.
  • Understand the role of Identity-Aware Proxy in mitigating risks.
  • Store application credentials and metadata securely using Secret Manager.
• Securing Google Kubernetes Engine: Techniques and Best Practices
  • Understand the basic components of a Kubernetes environment.
  • Understand how authentication and authorization works in Google Kubernetes Engine.
  • Recall how to harden Kubernetes Clusters against attacks.
  • Recall how to harden Kubernetes workloads against attacks.
  • Understand logging and monitoring options in Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Protecting against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS)
  • Understand how DDoS attacks work.
  • Recall common mitigations: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, autoscaling, VPC ingress and egress firewalls, Google Cloud Armor.
  • Recall the various types of complementary partner products available.
  • Use Google Cloud Armor to blocklist an IP address and restrict access to an HTTP load balancer.
• Content-Related Vulnerabilities: Techniques and Best Practices
  • Discuss the threat of ransomware.
  • Understand ransomware mitigations: Backups, IAM, Cloud Data Loss Prevention API.
  • Understand threats to content: Data misuse, privacy violations, sensitive/restricted/ unacceptable content.
  • Recall mitigations for threats to content: Classifying content using Cloud ML APIs; scanning and redacting data using the DLP API.
• Monitoring, Logging, Auditing, and Scanning
  • Understand and use Security Command Center.
  • Understand and use Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.
  • Install the Monitoring and Logging Agents.
  • Understand Cloud Audit Logs.
  • Gain experience configuring and viewing Cloud Audit Logs.
  • Gain experience deploying and using Forseti.
  • Learn how to inventory a deployment with Forseti Inventory.
  • Learn how to scan a deployment with Forseti Scanner.