Google Cloud Security Best Practices Crash Course

About Google Cloud Security Best Practices Crash Course

Whether you are a software developer, database administrator, DevOps engineer, data engineer, network engineer or architect, security is part of your job. This course gives you an overview of key security controls and services in Google Cloud and when to use them to protect resources and data. This course includes best practices for:

Managing identities including service accounts and federated identities

Controlling access to resource using IAM roles

Using organization policies to ensure consistent compliance with security policies

Protecting web applications against security risks

Using Apigee to protect APIs

Building secure containers

Securely managing secrets, such as passwords, API keys, and credentials

Protecting data in Cloud Storage as well as databases

Preventing data exfiltration using. Google Cloud's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) service

Securing Compute Engine instances and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters

Using network security controls including Cloud NAT, Cloud Armor, Identity-Aware Proxy, and VPC Service Controls This course is designed for those who are new to Google Cloud or want additional exposure to recommended ways to protect data and resources in Google Cloud. The course present an overview of principles, patterns, and practices that will help you improve the security of your Google Cloud environments. This course does not delve into implementation details, such as the syntax of gcloud commands to implement a security measure on a virtual machine. Implementation details are covered in other courses, particularly the Google Cloud Associate Engineer: Get Certified course. Let's dive into learning about a variety of important best practices for protecting your Google Cloud environment.