Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud

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Instructor: Google Cloud Training

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What you'll learn

Manage protection against distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS).
Manage content-related vulnerabilities.
Implement Google Cloud monitoring, logging, auditing, and scanning solutions.

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Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

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.

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.

What's included

2 readings

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.

What's included

7 videos1 assignment1 app item1 plugin

7 videosTotal 15 minutes

Module Overview1 minute
How DDoS attacks work2 minutes
DDoS Mitigation and Prevention on Google Cloud5 minutes
Using Google Cloud Armor3 minutes
Types of complementary partner products2 minutes
Lab Intro: Configuring Traffic Blocklisting with Google Cloud Armor0 minutes
Module review2 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 6 minutes

Protecting against DDoS Attacks6 minutes

1 app itemTotal 90 minutes

Lab: Configuring Traffic Blocklisting with Google Cloud Armor90 minutes

1 pluginTotal 15 minutes

Accessing and completing labs15 minutes

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 help 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.

What's included

7 videos1 assignment1 app item

7 videosTotal 12 minutes

Module Overview1 minute
Threat: Ransomware2 minutes
Ransomware mitigations3 minutes
Threats: Data misuse, privacy violations, sensitive content2 minutes
Content-related mitigation2 minutes
Lab Intro: Redacting Sensitive Data with the DLP API0 minutes
Module review1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 6 minutes

Content-Related Vulnerabilities6 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Lab: Redacting Sensitive Data with the DLP API60 minutes

Collecting, processing, aggregating, and displaying real-time quantitative data is helpful in supplying raw input into business analytics and in facilitating analysis of security breaches. Google Cloud provides many services and features to help 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.