Security in Google Cloud Platform

Price
$1,995.00 USD

Duration
3 Days

 

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

Course Overview

This course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud Platform. Through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure GCP solution. Participants also learn mitigation techniques for attacks at many points in a GCP-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use.

Course Objectives

  • Understanding the Google approach to security
  • Managing administrative identities using Cloud Identity.
  • Implementing least privilege administrative access using Google Cloud Resource Manager, Cloud IAM.
  • Implementing IP traffic controls using VPC firewalls and Cloud Armor Implementing Identity Aware Proxy
  • Analyzing changes to the configuration or metadata of resources with GCP audit logs
  • Scanning for and redact sensitive data with the Data Loss Prevention API
  • Scanning a GCP deployment with Forseti
  • Remediating important types of vulnerabilities, especially in public access to data and VMs

Who Should Attend?

Cloud information security analysts, architects, and engineers Information security/cybersecurity specialists Cloud infrastructure architects Developers of cloud applications.
  • Top-rated instructors: Our crew of subject matter experts have an average instructor rating of 4.8 out of 5 across thousands of reviews.
  • Authorized content: We maintain more than 35 Authorized Training Partnerships with the top players in tech, ensuring your course materials contain the most relevant and up-to date information.
  • Interactive classroom participation: Our virtual training includes live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs that allow you to participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow classmates to get real-time feedback.
  • Post Class Resources: Review your class content, catch up on any material you may have missed or perfect your new skills with access to resources after your course is complete.
  • Private Group Training: Let our world-class instructors deliver exclusive training courses just for your employees. Our private group training is designed to promote your team’s shared growth and skill development.
  • Tailored Training Solutions: Our subject matter experts can customize the class to specifically address the unique goals of your team.

Course Prerequisites

  • Prior completion of Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (GCF-CI) or equivalent experience
  • Prior completion of Networking in Google Cloud Platform (NGCP) or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge of foundational concepts in information security
  • Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
  • Systems Operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment
  • Reading comprehension of code in Python or JavaScript

Agenda

1 - Foundations of GCP Security

  • Understand the GCP shared security responsibility model
  • Understand Google Cloud’s approach to security
  • Understand the kinds of threats mitigated by Google and by GCP
  • Define and Understand Access Transparency and Access Approval (beta)

2 - Cloud Identity

  • Cloud Identity
  • Syncing with Microsoft Active Directory using Google Cloud Directory Sync
  • Using Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (beta )
  • Choosing between Google authentication and SAML-based SSO
  • Best practices, including DNS configuration, super admin accounts
  • Lab: Defining Users with Cloud Identity Console

3 - Identity, Access, and Key Management

  • GCP Resource Manager: projects, folders, and organizations
  • GCP IAM roles, including custom roles
  • GCP IAM policies, including organization policies
  • GCP IAM Labels
  • GCP IAM Recommender
  • GCP IAM Troubleshooter
  • GCP IAM Audit Logs
  • Best practices, including separation of duties and least privilege, the use of Google groups in policies, and avoiding the use of primitive roles
  • Labs: Configuring Cloud IAM, including custom roles and organization policies

4 - Configuring Google Virtual Private Cloud for Isolation and Security

  • Configuring VPC firewalls (both ingress and egress rules)
  • Load balancing and SSL policies
  • Private Google API access
  • SSL proxy use
  • Best practices for VPC networks, including peering and shared VPC use, correct use of subnetworks
  • Best security practices for VPNs
  • Security considerations for interconnect and peering options
  • Available security products from partners
  • Defining a service perimeter, including perimeter bridges
  • Setting up private connectivity to Google APIs and services
  • Lab: Configuring VPC firewalls

5 - Securing Compute Engine: techniques and best practices

  • Compute Engine service accounts, default and customer-defined
  • IAM roles for VMs
  • API scopes for VMs
  • Managing SSH keys for Linux VMs
  • Managing RDP logins for Windows VMs
  • Organization policy controls: trusted images, public IP address, disabling serial port
  • Encrypting VM images with customer-managed encryption keys and with customer-supplied encryption keys
  • Finding and remediating public access to VMs
  • Best practices, including using hardened custom images, custom service accounts (not the default service account), tailored API scopes, and the use of application default credentials instead of user-managed keys
  • Lab: Configuring, using, and auditing VM service accounts and scopes
  • Encrypting VM disks with customer-supplied encryption keys
  • Lab: Encrypting disks with customer-supplied encryption keys
  • Using Shielded VMs to maintain the integrity of virtual machines

6 - Securing cloud data: techniques and best practices

  • Cloud Storage and IAM permissions
  • Cloud Storage and ACLs
  • Auditing cloud data, including finding and remediating publicly accessible data
  • Signed Cloud Storage URLs
  • Signed policy documents
  • Encrypting Cloud Storage objects with customer-managed encryption keys and with customer-supplied encryption keys
  • Best practices, including deleting archived versions of objects after key rotation
  • Lab: Using customer-supplied encryption keys with Cloud Storage
  • Lab: Using customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud Storage and Cloud KMS
  • BigQuery authorized views
  • BigQuery IAM roles
  • Best practices, including preferring IAM permissions over ACLs
  • Lab: Creating a BigQuery authorized view

7 - Securing Applications: techniques and best practices

  • Types of application security vulnerabilities
  • DoS protections in App Engine and Cloud Functions
  • Cloud Security Scanner
  • Lab: Using Cloud Security Scanner to find vulnerabilities in an App Engine application
  • Identity Aware Proxy
  • Lab: Configuring Identity Aware Proxy to protect a project

8 - Securing Kubernetes: techniques and best practices

  • Authorization
  • Securing Workloads
  • Securing Clusters
  • Logging and Monitoring

9 - Protecting against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

  • How DDoS attacks work
  • Mitigations: GCLB, Cloud CDN, autoscaling, VPC ingress and egress firewalls, Cloud Armor (including its rules language)
  • Types of complementary partner products
  • Lab: Configuring GCLB, CDN, traffic blacklisting with Cloud Armor

10 - Protecting against content-related vulnerabilities

  • Threat: Ransomware
  • Mitigations: Backups, IAM, Data Loss Prevention API
  • Threats: Data misuse, privacy violations, sensitive/restricted/unacceptable content
  • Threat: Identity and Oauth phishing
  • Mitigations: Classifying content using Cloud ML APIs; scanning and redacting data using Data Loss Prevention API
  • Lab: Redacting Sensitive Data with Data Loss Prevention API

11 - Monitoring, Logging, Auditing, and Scanning

  • Security Command Center
  • Stackdriver monitoring and logging
  • Lab: Installing Stackdriver agents
  • Lab: Configuring and using Stackdriver monitoring and logging
  • VPC flow logs
  • Lab: Viewing and using VPC flow logs in Stackdriver
  • Cloud audit logging
  • Lab: Configuring and viewing audit logs in Stackdriver
  • Deploying and Using Forseti
  • Lab: Inventorying a Deployment with Forseti Inventory (demo)
  • Lab: Scanning a Deployment with Forseti Scanner (demo)
 

Upcoming Class Dates and Times

Jan 27, 28, 29
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
ENROLL $1,995.00 USD
 



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