Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Full Course 2026

Master Google Cloud Security — From Fundamentals to Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Preparing for the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification?

This course takes you from Google Cloud security fundamentals to advanced enterprise security, with a strong focus on practical implementation and real-world scenarios.

You'll learn how to secure identity, networks, data, applications, workloads and operations on Google Cloud, while preparing for the certification exam.

Throughout the course, you'll work with important Google Cloud security services including IAM, Organization Policy, VPC, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Sensitive Data Protection, Security Command Center, Cloud Armor, IAP, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Binary Authorization and more.

You'll also learn the security considerations for AI/ML and Vertex AI workloads, helping you understand how modern AI workloads can be secured on Google Cloud.

What makes this course different?

This is not just a certification theory course.

The course is heavily focused on practical implementation, demonstrations and real-world security scenarios, so you understand not only what Google Cloud security services do, but also when and why to use them.

What This Course Covers

Cloud & GCP Foundations

• Basic understanding of Cloud Computing

• Google Cloud Identity & Access model

• Core GCP architecture concepts

Identity & Access Security

• IAM: Roles, Permissions & Best Practices

• Organization Policies

• Service Accounts

• Workload Identity Federation

• Privileged Access Manager

• OS Login & SSH key management

Network Security in GCP

• Networking fundamentals

• VPC & Subnets

• Firewall Rules & Firewall Logs

• VPC Peering

• Shared VPC

• Cloud VPN

• Cloud Interconnect

• Private Google Access (PGA)

• Private Service Access (PSA)

• Private Service Connect (PSC)

• Cloud NAT

• Secure Web Proxy

• Load Balancers

• DNS & DNSSEC

• VPC Service Controls

• VPC Flow Logs

Perimeter & Application Protection

• Certificate Authority Service

• Cloud Armor

• Secure Web Proxy

• Edge and ingress security architecture

Data Security & Encryption

• Google-Managed Encryption Keys (GMEK)

• Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)

• Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys (CSEK)

• External Key Manager (EKM)

• Secret Manager

• Securing Cloud Storage Buckets

• Securing BigQuery

• BigQuery Taxonomy & Policy Tags

• Sensitive Data Protection (Data Loss Prevention)

Workload & Compute Security

• Securing Compute Engine

• SSH Keys & OS Login

• Workload identity best practices

• Securing Vertex AI

Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response

• Cloud Logging

• Log Router

• Log Sinks

• Cloud Monitoring & Alerting

• Audit Logs

• Firewall Logs

• VPC Flow Logs

• Security visibility & operations