Requirements
- No formal prerequisites for the certification exam.
- Google recommends 3+ years of industry experience and 1+ year designing/managing solutions on Google Cloud.
- Comfort with basics: networking (VPC/subnets/firewalls), Linux, and one scripting language (Python/Bash).
- Helpful (not mandatory): Cloud Fundamentals + basic IAM concepts.
- SOC/Blue-team analysts working with cloud logs, alerts, and investigations
- Cloud Architects responsible for governance, risk, and compliance controls
- Developers working on secure-by-default APIs, containers, and CI/CD
Features
- Live Project-Based Training
- Expert-Led Sessions
- Flexible Learning Options
- Interactive Learning
- Globally Recognized Certification
- Comprehensive Study Material
- One-on-One Mentorship
Target audiences
- Cloud/Security Engineers moving into Google Cloud security roles
- DevOps/SRE professionals handling secure deployments and operations
- System & Network Admins migrating workloads to GCP
If you’re the person your team calls when permissions get messy, logs don’t add up, or a workload needs to meet compliance, this Google Professional Cloud Security Training is built for you. At Ascents Learning, we teach the job, not just the exam—using the same kind of scenarios you see in real projects: tightening IAM for service accounts, protecting sensitive data with KMS/Secret Manager, and hardening network boundaries for apps running on GKE or Compute Engine.
This certification track focuses on the exact skills Google tests: configuring access, securing communications and boundary protection, ensuring data protection, managing operations, and supporting compliance. In Ascents Learning, you’ll do hands-on labs around IAM design, VPC controls, logging/monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and policy-driven governance—so you can explain why a control is needed, not just how to click it.
By the end, you should be able to review a cloud architecture and quickly spot the common security gaps (over-permissioned roles, exposed services, weak key handling, missing audit trails). Join Ascents Learning to prep confidently for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer path—and to become the go-to cloud security person on your team.
Curriculum
- 15 Sections
- 75 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Module 1: Course Kickoff + Cloud Security Basics5
- Module 2: Resource Hierarchy + Governance Controls5
- Module 3: IAM Fundamentals (Access Control Done Right)5
- Module 4: IAM Advanced (Real-World Access Patterns)5
- Module 5: Identity Federation + SSO + MFA5
- Module 6: Network Security Basics (VPC, Subnets, Firewalls)5
- Module 7: Boundary Protection (Zero Trust in GCP)5
- Module 8: Secure Communications (TLS, Ingress/Egress Security)5
- Module 9: Data Protection Foundations5
- 9.1Data classification: public/internal/confidential/restricted
- 9.2Encryption at rest and in transit: what’s default vs what you control
- 9.3Database security basics (Cloud SQL/BigQuery security concepts)
- 9.3Storage security patterns (bucket policies, access controls)
- 9.4Data loss prevention concepts (DLP-style thinking)
- Module 10: Cloud KMS + Secret Management5
- Module 11: Workload Security (Compute, Containers, Serverless)6
- 11.1VM hardening basics: OS Login, patching, least privilege
- 11.2Shielded VM concepts (protecting boot integrity)
- 11.3GKE security essentials: node vs pod security thinking
- 11.4Workload Identity for GKE (avoiding service account keys)
- 11.5Supply chain security basics: Artifact Registry, image scanning concepts
- 11.6Binary Authorization concept (only deploy approved images)
- Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Auditability5
- Module 13: Threat Detection + Security Posture5
- 13.1Security Command Center (SCC) overview: assets, findings, prioritization
- 13.2Misconfiguration detection and risk scoring approach
- 13.3Threat detection concepts: what signals matter (IAM, network, workloads)
- 13.4Vulnerability management basics (scan → triage → fix → verify)
- 13.5Hardening roadmap: quick wins vs long-term controls
- Module 14: Incident Response + Security Operations5
- Module 15: Compliance Support + Policy-Driven Security4



