Security in Google Cloud

Cloud environments are now home to an organization's most valuable assets, from customer data to production AI systems, and attackers know it. This seven-course track, built in collaboration with Google Cloud, teaches you to protect every layer of your Google Cloud environment. Through presentations, demos, and hands-on labs in real Google Cloud projects, you'll gain the practical experience to build and run secure cloud infrastructure with confidence.

Build a Layered Cloud Security Toolkit

Explore Google Cloud's security services in depth as you learn to:

• Manage identities and access with Cloud Identity, IAM, and service accounts
• Secure VPC networks with firewall rules, VPC Service Controls, and Private Google Access
• Harden virtual machines with Shielded VMs and Confidential VMs
• Discover, classify, and encrypt sensitive data with Sensitive Data Protection and Cloud KMS
• Protect web applications with Cloud Armor, Web Security Scanner, and Identity Platform
• Secure GKE clusters, workload identities, and Kubernetes secrets
• Apply Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF) to protect AI models and agents

Solve Real-World Security Challenges

Apply your skills in hands-on labs that mirror the work of professional security engineers. You'll configure IAM with least privilege, secure BigQuery data with fine-grained access controls, set up web application firewall rules, and harden containerized workloads. You'll also learn to defend against DDoS attacks and content-related threats like ransomware, and use Security Command Center, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Audit Logs to spot suspicious activity before it becomes a breach.

Advance Your Cloud Security Career

Demand for cloud security skills keeps growing as more critical workloads and AI systems move to the cloud. By completing this track, you'll be able to:

• Design a secure foundation for any Google Cloud environment
• Protect compute, data, applications, containers, and AI models with defense in depth
• Detect, investigate, and respond to threats across your cloud resources
• Apply zero-trust principles to identities, networks, and workloads

Whether you're a security engineer moving to the cloud, a cloud engineer taking on security responsibilities, or an administrator protecting Google Cloud environments, this track gives you the skills to keep your organization's cloud secure.