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This program provides the skills you need to advance your career in cloud security and provides a pathway to earn the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification. 

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Difficulty Level: INTERMEDIATE
 
Estimated Learning Time: 9 Months - Approximately 2 hours of study a week
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Skills You Will Gain

Google Compute Engine

Google App Engine (GAE)

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud Computing

Create and understand custom IAM roles

Secure a Kubernetes environment

Create and configure network peering

About this Professional Certificate

87% of Google Cloud certified users feel more confident in their cloud skills*. This program provides the skills you need to advance your career as a security engineer and provides training to support your preparation for the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification.

You'll also have the opportunity to configure access, configure network security, and ensure data protection among other things.

Your journey to Google Cloud certification:

  1. Complete the Coursera Google Cloud Security Professional Certificate.
  2. Review other recommended learning resources for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam.
  3. Review the Google Cloud Professional Security Engineer exam guide.
  4. Review the Professional Cloud Security Engineer sample questions.
  5. Register for the Google Cloud certification exam. (The exam can be taken remotely or at a test center)

* Percentages indicate those who strongly or somewhat agree with the statement. Findings from a survey conducted with Google Cloud certified individuals in May 2019 by an independent third-party research organization.

What you will learn

  • Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud security engineer role
  • Prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification exam
  • Learn about Cloud Security including managing access, defining organizational structure/ policies, configuring network security, and analyzing logs
  • Describe the domains covered on the Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification exam

 

Courses in this Professional Certificate

Course

 

1

Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey

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 have a personalized workbook that will guide them through the rest of their certification readiness journey.


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2

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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 tools.


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3

Networking in Google Cloud: Defining and Implementing Networks

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 firewalls. The course also covers access control to networks, sharing networks and load balancing.


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4

Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid Connectivity and Network Management

Learn about the broad variety of networking options on Google Cloud. This course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to help you explore and deploy Google Cloud networking technologies, including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, subnets, and firewalls; interconnection among networks; load balancing; Cloud DNS; Cloud CDN; and Cloud NAT. You'll also learn about common network design patterns and automated deployment using Terraform.


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5

Managing Security in Google Cloud

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, Cloud IAM, Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Peering, Cloud Interconnect, and VPC Service Controls.


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6

Security Best Practices in Google Cloud

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 technologies, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, API access controls, scoping, shielded VMs, encryption, and signed URLs. It also covers securing Kubernetes environments.


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7

Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud

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 logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.


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8

Hands-On Labs in Google Cloud for Security Engineers

Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this course you will get added hands-on practice understanding and securing resources with multiple Google Cloud services including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).