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Security in Google Cloud
Cloud Computing and Virtualisation

Security in Google Cloud

  • Length 3 days
  • Price $2800 inc GST
  • Version V2.0
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Why study this course

This three-day instructor-led course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to teach you about a variety of Google Cloud security controls and techniques.

You’ll explore the components of Google Cloud and deploy a secure solution on the platform. You’ll also learn how to mitigate attacks at several points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including distributed denial-of-service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use.

This course is a continuation of the Networking in Google Cloud Platform course and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in that course.

On successful completion of this course, DDLS will issue you a digital badge that you can share on your social media channels and use as part of your wider applicable certification and training transcript.

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What you’ll learn

This course teaches participants the following skills:

  • 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.

  • Securing a Kubernetes environment.

  • Scanning for and redacting sensitive data with the Data Loss Prevention API.

  • Scanning a GCP deployment with Forseti.

  • Mitigating important types of vulnerabilities, especially in public access to data and VMs.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for the following participants:

  • 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.

Course subjects

Module 1: Foundations of GCP Security

  • Understand the GCP shared security responsibility model

  • Understand Google Cloud’s approach to security

  • Understand the kinds of threats mitigated by Google and by GCP

  • Define and Understand Access Transparency and Access Approval

Module 2: Cloud Identity

  • Cloud Identity

  • Syncing with Microsoft Active Directory using Google Cloud Directory Sync

  • Using Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory

  • Choosing between Google authentication and SAML-based SSO

  • Best practices, including DNS configuration, super admin accounts

  • Lab: Defining Users with Cloud Identity Console

Module 3: Identity, Access, and Key Management

  • GCP Resource Manager: projects, folders, and organizations

  • GCP IAM roles, including custom roles

  • GCP IAM policies, including organization policies

  • GCP IAM Labels

  • GCP IAM Recommender

  • GCP IAM Troubleshooter

  • GCP IAM Audit Logs

  • Best practices, including separation of duties and least privilege, the use of Google groups in policies, and avoiding the use of primitive roles

  • Labs: Configuring Cloud IAM, including custom roles and organization policies

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 VPC networks, including peering and shared VPC use, correct use of subnetworks

  • Best security practices for VPNs

  • Security considerations for interconnect and peering options

  • Available security products from partners

  • Defining a service perimeter, including perimeter bridges

  • Setting up private connectivity to Google APIs and services

  • Lab: Configuring VPC firewalls

Module 5: 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

  • Best practices, including using hardened custom images, custom service accounts (not the default service account), tailored API scopes, and the use of application default credentials instead of user-managed keys

  • Lab: Configuring, using, and auditing VM service accounts and scopes

  • Encrypting VM disks with customer-supplied encryption keys

  • Lab: Encrypting disks with customer-supplied encryption keys

  • Using Shielded VMs to maintain the integrity of virtual machines

Module 6: 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

  • Lab: Using customer-supplied encryption keys with Cloud Storage

  • Lab: Using customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud Storage and Cloud KMS

  • BigQuery authorized views

  • BigQuery IAM roles

  • Best practices, including preferring IAM permissions over ACLs

  • Lab: Creating a BigQuery authorized view

Module 7: Securing Applications: Techniques and Best Practices

  • Types of application security vulnerabilities

  • DoS protections in App Engine and Cloud Functions

  • Cloud Security Scanner

  • Lab: Using Cloud Security Scanner to find vulnerabilities in an App Engine application

  • Identity Aware Proxy

  • Lab: Configuring Identity Aware Proxy to protect a project

Module 8: Securing Kubernetes: Techniques and Best Practices

  • Authorization

  • Securing Workloads

  • Securing Clusters

  • Logging and Monitoring

Module 9: Protecting Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

  • How DDoS attacks work

  • Mitigations: GCLB, Cloud CDN, autoscaling, VPC ingress and egress firewalls, Cloud Armor (including its rules language)

  • Types of complementary partner products

  • Lab: Configuring GCLB, CDN, traffic blacklisting with Cloud Armor

Module 10: Protecting Against Content-Related Vulnerabilities

  • Threat: Ransomware

  • Mitigations: Backups, IAM, Data Loss Prevention API

  • Threats: Data misuse, privacy violations, sensitive/restricted/unacceptable content

  • Threat: Identity and Oauth phishing

  • Mitigations: Classifying content using Cloud ML APIs; scanning and redacting data using Data Loss Prevention API

  • Lab: Redacting Sensitive Data with Data Loss Prevention API

Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, Auditing, and Scanning

  • Security Command Center

  • Stackdriver monitoring and logging

  • Lab: Installing Stackdriver agents

  • Lab: Configuring and using Stackdriver monitoring and logging

  • VPC flow logs

  • Lab: Viewing and using VPC flow logs in Stackdriver

  • Cloud audit logging

  • Lab: Configuring and viewing audit logs in Stackdriver

  • Deploying and Using Forseti

  • Lab: Inventorying a Deployment with Forseti Inventory

  • Lab: Scanning a Deployment with Forseti Scanner

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, participants should have:

  • Completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or have equivalent experience

  • Completed Networking in Google Cloud Platform or have 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

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The supply of this course by DDLS is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.

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