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Security & Compliance on Google Cloud Specialization

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Security & Compliance on Google Cloud Specialization

Layered Security Operations With Google Cloud.

Leverage Google SecOps and Security Command Center to scale threat detection and risk response.

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Intermediate level

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8 weeks to complete
at 6 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Implement an AI security strategy using the Secure AI Framework (SAIF) to mitigate landscape-specific threats and protect sensitive data.

  • Modernize security operations by applying Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) and Continuous Detection/Response (CD/CR) methodologies.

  • Analyze and prioritize cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations using Security Command Center to maintain a healthy security posture.

  • Explain the architecture and deployment patterns of a Unified Google SecOps environment to prepare for integrated security workflows.

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Specialization - 7 course series

Introduction to Security in the World of AI

Introduction to Security in the World of AI

Course 1, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand the key concepts of AI, machine learning, and generative AI, and how models are built into APIs and applications.

  • Understand the current landscape of potential threats both due to AI and when using AI.

  • Understand at a high level how to organize an ecosystem for preventing these threat attacks.

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive AI security strategy based on Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF).

Skills you'll gain

Category: AI Security
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Security Strategy
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Security Management
Category: Risking
Category: Data Security
Modern Security Operations

Modern Security Operations

Course 2, 9 hours

What you'll learn

  • Gain insight into the evolving landscape of cybersecurity and recognize the emerging challenges across industries

  • Understand the principles and benefits of the Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) framework

  • Explore the key components of the Continuous Deployment/Continuous Response (CD/CR) methodology

  • Learn practical strategies for implementing CD/CR pipelines

Skills you'll gain

Category: Site Reliability Engineering
Category: Cyber Security Assessment
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Threat Management
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Security Strategy
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Incident Response
Category: Automation
Category: DevOps
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Critical Thinking
Category: Cyber Security Strategy
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Cyber Attacks
Category: Security Management
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Security Engineering

What you'll learn

  • Evaluate vulnerability and misconfiguration management options in SCC to ensure issues are discoverable.

  • Analyze the findings generated by detector services and identify vulnerabilities associated with software weaknesses and resource misconfigurations.

  • Prioritize security findings using risk factors and built-in features to focus on the highest-impact remediation tasks across cloud resources.

  • Create compliance reports to maintain long-term security posture health.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Vulnerability Management
Category: Vulnerability Scanning
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Threat Management
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Issue Tracking
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Threat Detection

What you'll learn

  • Explain the setup required to activate Security Command Center and begin the initial virtual red teaming scenario.

  • Identify high-value resources in your environment.

  • Investigate security issues and findings based on the results of the virtual red teaming simulation.

  • Explain how to generate a risk report that captures prioritized findings for stakeholders.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Simulations
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Configuration Management
Category: Threat Management
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Security Testing
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Security Management
Category: Vulnerability Management

What you'll learn

  • Explain the purpose, structure, and key capabilities of the Google SecOps platform.

  • Describe the main components of SecOps architecture and how they interact within Google Cloud.

  • Configure authentication, access, and provisioning workflows for SecOps environments.

  • Compare and apply different SecOps deployment patterns, including single-tenant and multi-tenant setups.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Management
Category: Cloud Deployment
Category: UI Components
Category: Cyber Operations
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Authentications
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: IT Security Architecture
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments
Category: User Provisioning
Category: Identity and Access Management
Introduction to Google Security Operations (SIEM)

Introduction to Google Security Operations (SIEM)

Course 6, 6 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain the architecture, data model, and core components of Google SecOps SIEM, including ingestion methods, UDM, normalization, and RBAC.

  • Ingest, normalize, and manage log data from multiple sources, using direct ingestion, APIs, cloud buckets, streaming services, and on-prem collectors

  • Perform effective investigations using raw logs, UDM search, statistical search, and data tables, and build dashboards.

  • Design, test, and optimize detections using YARA-L, including single-event, multi-event, composite rules, entity context, etc..

Skills you'll gain

Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Incident Response
Category: Computer Security Incident Management
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Data Integration
Category: Identity and Access Management
Introducing Google Security Operations (SOAR)

Introducing Google Security Operations (SOAR)

Course 7, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain the core concepts and benefits of Google SecOps SOAR.

  • Configure and set up SOAR to integrate with security tools and data sources.

  • Build and execute automated response actions and playbooks.

  • Generate and interpret SOAR reports and dashboards

Skills you'll gain

Category: Systems Integration
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: System Configuration
Category: Automation
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: Security Software
Category: Integrated Development Environments
Category: Incident Management
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Data Integration
Category: Dashboard Creation

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