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
- 0 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Module 1: Course Kickoff + Cloud Security Basics0
- Module 2: Resource Hierarchy + Governance Controls0
- Module 3: IAM Fundamentals (Access Control Done Right)0
- Module 4: IAM Advanced (Real-World Access Patterns)0
- Module 5: Identity Federation + SSO + MFA0
- Module 6: Network Security Basics (VPC, Subnets, Firewalls)0
- Module 7: Boundary Protection (Zero Trust in GCP)0
- Module 8: Secure Communications (TLS, Ingress/Egress Security)0
- Module 9: Data Protection Foundations0
- Module 10: Cloud KMS + Secret Management0
- Module 11: Workload Security (Compute, Containers, Serverless)0
- Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Auditability0
- Module 13: Threat Detection + Security Posture0
- Module 14: Incident Response + Security Operations0
- Module 15: Compliance Support + Policy-Driven Security0