Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud

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Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud is a specialized course designed for cloud security professionals, system administrators, and developers focused on protecting cloud infrastructure from threats and vulnerabilities. This course provides in-depth knowledge and practical strategies to identify, analyze, and mitigate security risks specific to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).You’ll explore common security challenges in cloud environments, including misconfigurations, data breaches, identity and access management flaws, and network vulnerabilities. The course covers GCP’s native security tools such as Cloud Security...

Syllabus

Welcome to Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud

Welcome to Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud! In this course we will build upon the foundations laid during the earlier courses in this series. In this section, expect to learn more about security tools available to you when using Google Cloud, and how to use them to lower the risk of malicious attacks against your systems, software and data.

Protecting against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS)

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks are a major concern today and can have a huge impact on businesses if the business is not adequately prepared. In this module we will begin with a quick discussion on how DDoS attacks work and then review some DDoS mitigation techniques that are provided by Google Cloud. We will finish up with a review of complementary partner products and a lab where you will get a chance to see some DDoS mitigations in action.

Content-Related Vulnerabilities: Techniques and Best Practices

In this module we will discuss threats to your content. First, we review the threat of ransomware, and some of the mitigations you can utilize in Google Cloud to protect your systems from it. Then we will move to a discussion of threats related to data misuse and privacy violations and discuss a few mitigation strategies that can be utilized to protect applications and systems.

Monitoring, Logging, Auditing and Scanning

Collecting, processing, aggregating, and displaying real-time quantitative data isful in supplying raw input into business analytics and in facilitating analysis of security breaches. Google Cloud provides many services and features to with this - and that is what this module is all about.In this module we will investigate Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging, Cloud Audit Logs, and then discuss how to leverage Forseti Security to systematically monitor your Google Cloud resources.