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Google Cloud Security Essentials

By Matthew Ulasien

Learn to secure your Google Cloud environment.

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10 hours
  • 52 Lessons
  • 6 Course Quizzes

About the course

This course will teach the core fundamentals necessary to properly secure your Google Cloud environment and manage who has access to what resources. The concepts introduced in this course are necessary for any security considerations on Google Cloud.

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  • Chapter 1 3 Lessons Getting Started 4:47

    An Important Note About A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Courses

    1:19

    Course Introduction

    2:47

    About the Training Architect

    0:41
  • Chapter 2 2 Lessons Getting Started 10:27

    Introducing our Demonstration Organization

    2:13

    Protecting Your Google Cloud Account

    8:14
  • Chapter 3 11 Lessons Identity and Access Management (IAM) 2:19:52

    GCP Resource Hierarchy

    5:56

    Identity and Access Management (IAM)

    16:32

    Navigating IAM

    6:43

    Adding IAM Roles

    15:22

    Folders

    11:31

    Service Accounts

    17:12

    Custom Roles

    11:23

    Edit IAM Policy

    7:13

    IAM Best Practices

    8:15

    Putting it all Together

    9:45

    QUIZ: Google Cloud IAM and Security

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 4 13 Lessons Securing GCP Network Infrastructure 2:09:36

    Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

    7:53

    Firewalls Basics

    6:53

    Viewing Firewall Rules

    9:20

    Create Targeted Firewall Rule

    6:54

    Automate Firewall Rules for Webserver

    4:49

    Limiting Exposure

    4:06

    Google Cloud VPN

    9:50

    Bastion Host

    15:19

    Interactive Serial Console

    5:38

    Routes

    9:39

    Private Google Access

    9:26

    Network IAM Roles

    9:49

    QUIZ: Google Cloud VPC Security Essentials

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 5 10 Lessons Securing your Operating System 1:49:22

    OS Security Overview

    2:55

    Limit OS Access by Location

    6:27

    OS Updates

    9:51

    Securing Scaling Instance Groups

    12:54

    SSH Keys and Metadata

    8:20

    Securing SSH Access to Linux Instances

    13:33

    Linux Access and IAM Roles

    7:17

    Windows Instance Access Management

    9:47

    OS Security Best Practices and Acceptable Use

    8:18

    QUIZ: Securing the Operating System

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 6 8 Lessons Securing Your Data 1:25:29

    Securing Cloud Storage

    1:56

    Cloud Storage IAM Roles

    7:10

    Demonstrating Storage IAM Scopes

    11:02

    Access Control Lists (ACLs)

    10:41

    Demonstrating ACLs

    11:25

    Signed URLs

    7:50

    Database Security

    5:25

    QUIZ: Securing Your Data with Google Cloud

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 7 4 Lessons Monitoring GCP 31:39

    Logging and Monitoring with Stackdriver

    7:58

    Viewing Stackdriver Logs

    11:01

    Exporting Logs

    4:50

    Monitoring and Alerts

    7:50
  • Chapter 8 2 Lessons Google Cloud Platform and Auditing 37:39

    Compliance on Google Cloud Platform

    7:39

    QUIZ: Monitoring, Alerting, and Auditing within the Google Cloud

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 9 4 Lessons GCP Encryption Options 55:05

    Encryption on Google Cloud Platform

    9:40

    Key Management Service

    5:04

    Encryption Demonstration with KMS

    10:21

    QUIZ: Google Cloud Encryption Options

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 10 1 Lesson Final Steps 1:35

    Next Steps

    1:35

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