Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Security Engineer Certificate Online
Build your cloud platform security proficiency with Google Cloud security training and certificate courses that includes managing access, configuring network defenses, analyzing logs and managing incident response.
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- Build foundational skills used by successful cloud security engineers working with GCP
- Examine Google Cloud security controls and security best practices, ranging from VPC networks and firewalls to API access controls and encryption
- Learn to mitigate security vulnerabilities and practice securing resources with multiple Google Cloud services, such as Google Kubernetes Engine
- Plan and prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification exam
About the Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Network Engineer Professional Certificate
The role of security engineer, security specialist or security admin is not only essential in today’s high-tech world, it's also challenging. Knowledge and skill are powerful tools against challenges, so if you're committed to becoming more confident and skilled in cloud security, this certificate program is for you.
The Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Network Engineer Professional Certificate program can help you learn – and practice – designing and implementing secure workloads and infrastructure on Google Cloud.
This Professional Certificate is comprised of seven, self-paced courses that can help increase your proficiency in all aspects of cloud security, including access management, network security configuration, data protection and incident response.
In addition to interactive lessons, you’ll participate in a series of applied learning projects, ranging from assigning API permissions to providing access components within Google Cloud to leveraging network policies to apply restrictions and limit intra-cluster communication.
Even more importantly, the coursework in this certificate program features essential exam-related content, such as configuring access and network security, managing operations in a cloud solution environment, and security best practices, so you can have confidence in your preparation for Google Cloud certification.
Required Google Cloud Security Engineer Certificate Courses
BEGINNER | Computer Science | Self-paced | 4 hours
This course helps learners prepare for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer (PCSE) Certification exam. Learners will be exposed to and engage with exam topics through a series of lectures, diagnostic questions, and knowledge checks. After completing this course, learners will have a personalized workbook that will guide them through the rest of their certification readiness journey.
BEGINNER | Information Technology | Self-paced | 6 hours
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 6 hours
"Networking in Google cloud is a 6 part course series. Welcome to the first course of our six part course series, Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals. This course provides a comprehensive overview of core networking concepts, including networking fundamentals, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and the sharing of VPC networks. Additionally, the course covers network logging and monitoring techniques. "
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 4 hours
"Welcome to the second course in the networking and Google Cloud series routing and addressing. In this course, we'll cover the central routing and addressing concepts that are relevant to Google Cloud's networking capabilities. Module one will lay the foundation by exploring network routing and addressing in Google Cloud, covering key building blocks such as routing IPv4, bringing your own IP addresses and setting up cloud DNS. In Module two will shift our focus to private connection options, exploring use cases and methods for accessing Google and other services privately using internal IP addresses. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of how to effectively route and address your network traffic within Google Cloud."
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 2 hours
Welcome to the third course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Architecture! In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of designing efficient and scalable network architectures within Google Cloud. In the first module, Introduction to Network Architecture, we'll start by introducing you to the core components and concepts of network architecture, including subnets, routes, firewalls, and load balancing. Then in the second module, network topologies, we'll dive into various network topologies commonly used in Google Cloud, discussing their strengths, and weaknesses.INTERMEDIATE | Computer Science | Self-paced | 6 hours
Welcome to the fourth course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Security! In this course, you'll dive into the services for safeguarding your Google Cloud network infrastructure. The first module, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection, covers how to fortify your network against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, ensuring uninterrupted availability of your services. In the second module, Controlling Access to VPC Networks, you'll learn the network access control, enabling you to define permissions for who can access your resources and how. Finally, in the third module, Advanced Security Monitoring and Analysis, we'll explore how to proactively detect and respond to potential threats, keeping your Google Cloud environment secure and resilient. By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of Google Cloud network security.
INTERMEDIATE | Computer Science | Self-paced | 3 hours
This training course builds on the concepts covered in the Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals course. Through presentations, demonstrations, and labs, participants explore and implement Cloud Load Balancing.
INTERMEDIATE | Computer Science | Self-paced | 2 hours
Welcome to the sixth course in our networking and Google Cloud series hybrid and multicloud. The first module will walk you through various Cloud connectivity options with a deep dive into Cloud interconnect exploring its different types and functionalities. In the second module, we'll cover cloudvpn discussing its implementation High availability VPN topologies and the network connectivity Center or NCC for streamline management. By the end of this course, you will be able to explain the different connectivity options available to extend your on premises and other Cloud networks to Google cloud and analyze a suitability of different Google Cloud hybrid and multicloud connectivity services for specific use cases. Let's get started.
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 8 hours
This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Identity, Resource Manager, Cloud IAM, Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Peering, Cloud Interconnect, and VPC Service Controls. This is the first course of the Security in Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Security Best Practices in Google Cloud course.
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 12 hours
This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Storage access control technologies, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, API access controls, scoping, shielded VMs, encryption, and signed URLs. It also covers securing Kubernetes environments.INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 6 hours
In this self-paced training course, participants learn mitigations 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. They also learn about the Security Command Center, cloud logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.
BEGINNER | Information Technology | Self-paced | 8 hours
This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud. Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.
BEGINNER | Information Technology | Self-paced | 6 hours
Welcome to the second part of the two part course, Observability in Google Cloud. This course is all about application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 5 hours
Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this course you will get added hands-on practice understanding and securing resources with multiple Google Cloud services including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This course is unlike other courses, in that it consists of one module of background videos, followed by a series of hands-on practice exercises on Google Cloud via Qwiklabs. The practice modules include no videos, lectures, or quizzes - just more practice on real Google Cloud. If you enjoyed this course, you can check out the full quest including a challenge lab that requires a solution to be built with minimal guidance. You will have an opportunity to earn a Google Cloud digital Skill Badge on completion as well! Visit - google.qwiklabs.com and look for ‘Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine’ and ‘Ensure Access & Identity in Google Cloud’.Complete This Certificate. Get College Credit.
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When you enroll in this self-paced certificate program, you decide how quickly you want to complete each of the courses in the specialization. To access the courses, you pay a small monthly cost of $35, so the total cost of your Professional Certificate depends on you. Plus, you can take a break or cancel your subscription anytime.
You can expect to spend 2-3 months complete the courses and hands-on projects to earn your certificate.
This intermediate-level course is best for those with 3+ years of industry experience, a foundational understanding of information security, proficiency with Linux OX and command-line tools, the ability to comprehend code in Python or Javascript, and at least a year using Google Cloud to design and manage solutions.
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