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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.

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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.

Exercise 1: Module overview Exercise 2: How DDoS attacks work Exercise 3: DDoS mitigation and prevention on Google Cloud Exercise 4: Using Google Cloud Armor Exercise 5: Types of complementary partner products Exercise 6: Lab Intro: Configuring Traffic Blocklisting with Google Cloud Armor Exercise 7: Configuring Traffic Blocklisting with Google Cloud Armor Exercise 8: Module review Exercise 9: Quiz: Protecting against DDoS Attacks — Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz: Protecting against DDoS Attacks — Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz: Protecting against DDoS Attacks — Question 3

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.

Exercise 1: Module overview Exercise 2: Threat: Ransomware Exercise 3: Ransomware mitigations Exercise 4: Threats: Data misuse, privacy violations, sensitive content Exercise 5: Content-related mitigation Exercise 6: Lab Intro: Redacting Sensitive Data with the DLP API Exercise 7: Redacting Sensitive Data with the DLP API Exercise 8: Module review Exercise 9: Quiz: Content-Related Vulnerabilities — Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz: Content-Related Vulnerabilities — Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz: Content-Related Vulnerabilities — Question 3

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.

Exercise 1: Module overview Exercise 2: Security Command Center Exercise 3: Tiers and pricing Exercise 4: Demo: Using Security Command Center Exercise 5: Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging Exercise 6: Lab Intro: Configuring and Using Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring Exercise 7: Configuring and Using Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring Exercise 8: Cloud Audit Logs Exercise 9: Lab Intro: Configuring and Viewing Cloud Audit Logs Exercise 10: Configuring and Viewing Cloud Audit Logs Exercise 11: Cloud security automation Exercise 12: Module review Exercise 13: Module Quiz — Question 1 Exercise 14: Module Quiz — Question 2 Exercise 15: Module Quiz — Question 3 Exercise 16: Module Quiz — Question 4

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