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Security Engineer Learning Path

A Security Engineer develops, implements, and monitors their organization’s security infrastructure to protect sensitive information against cybercrime.

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A Security Engineer develops, implements, and monitors their organization’s security infrastructure to protect sensitive information against cybercrime. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Security Engineer role. Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Security Engineer certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
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1

A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

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access_time 45 minutes
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In this first hands-on lab you will access the Google Cloud console and use these basic Google Cloud features: Projects, Resources, IAM Users, Roles, Permissions, and APIs.

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Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey

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access_time 1 day
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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...

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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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...

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Networking in Google Cloud: Defining and Implementing Networks

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access_time 2 days
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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of networking options on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy Google Cloud networking technologies, such as Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, subnets and...

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Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid Connectivity and Network Management

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access_time 2 days
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This self-paced training course builds on the Networking in Google Cloud: Defining and Implementing Networks course and enhances the study of networking options on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, you explore and deploy Google Cloud networking...

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Managing Security in Google Cloud

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access_time 2 days
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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,...

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Security Best Practices in Google Cloud

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access_time 3 days
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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...

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Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud

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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...

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Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud

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access_time 15 days
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Learn how to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve your infrastructure and application performance. Guided by the principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), this course features a combination of lectures, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies. In this course, you'll gain...

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Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud

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access_time 7 hours
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud quest, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital...

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Ensure Access & Identity in Google Cloud

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access_time 1 day
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Ensure Access & Identity in Google Cloud quest, where you will learn about many fundamental features of cloud security, including how to recognize and assign roles and users using Identity and Access Management...

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Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security

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access_time 5 hours
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Get Anthos Ready. This Google Kubernetes Engine-centric quest of best practice hands-on labs focuses on security at scale when deploying and managing production GKE environments -- specifically role-based access control, hardening, VPC networking, and binary authorization.

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Securing your Network with Cloud Armor

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access_time 6 hours
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Learn to secure your deployments on Google Cloud, including: how to use Cloud Armor bot management to mitigate bot risk and control access from automated clients; use Cloud Armor denylists to restrict or allow access to your HTTP(S) load balancer...

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Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center

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access_time 6 hours
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center quest, where you will learn how to prevent and manage environment threats, identify and mitigate application vulnerabilities, respond to security anomalies, and a whole lot...

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