Course Overview

A Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Operations Engineer detects, monitors, analyzes, investigates, and responds to security threats against workloads, endpoints, and infrastructure.

After completing Security Operations Engineer Certification, you will be able to conduct

  • Platform operations
  • Data management
  • Threat hunting
  • Detection engineering
  • Incident response
  • Observability

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Key Features of Security Operations Engineer Certification

  • 1. Practical, Hands-On Security Operations:

    • Real-world labs, quizzes, and challenge labs to reinforce concepts.
    • Hands-on experience with Security Command Center, Chronicle, and GDC SOC tools.
    • Scenario-based tasks to apply detection and response skills in simulated environments.

  • 2. Advanced Threat Detection and Response:

    • Learn to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents using Google Security Operations.
    • Build custom detection rules with YARA-L and automate threat hunting.
    • Use Google Threat Intelligence to enrich detections and responses.

  • 3. Comprehensive Platform Mastery:

    • Deep dive into Security Command Center Enterprise and Chronicle Security Operations.
    • Understand vulnerability management, threat detection, and compliance monitoring.
    • Explore multi-cloud and air-gapped (GDC) security operations.

  • 4. Modern SOC Practices:

    • Gain insights into SOC roles, tiered analyst workflows, and incident runbooks.
    • Learn how to triage alerts and manage escalations efficiently.
    • Understand tools and processes for air-gapped and distributed environments.

  • 5. Automation and Orchestration:

    • Develop automated playbooks for response using Chronicle.
    • Explore SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) fundamentals.
    • Automate detection, response, and threat hunting workflows.

  • 6. Integration with Threat Intelligence:

    • Leverage Google’s Threat Intelligence Platform for advanced detection.
    • Automate IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) and threat graph analysis.
    • Perform digital threat monitoring and attack surface management.

  • 7. Continuous Compliance Monitoring:

    • Learn to monitor security posture with Security Health Analytics.
    • Manage and monitor compliance findings in SCC.
    • Implement risk management in multi-cloud environments.

  • 8. Gen AI for Security Decision-Making:

    • Use Gemini, Google’s AI collaborator, to analyze and interpret security data.
    • Navigate security incidents and posture with AI assistance.
    • Integrate AI to reduce false positives and improve response efficiency.

  • 9. Real-World Challenges:

    • Tackle scenario-based challenge labs to test skills independently.
    • Analyze false positives and improve detection accuracy.
    • Apply knowledge to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities in live scenarios.

  • 10. Future-Ready Security Operations:

    • Understand trends in autonomic security operations (ASO).
    • Learn continuous detection and response (CD/CR) approaches.
    • Prepare for evolving SecOps demands with modern frameworks and tools.

Who should Attend Security Operations Engineer Certification

  • Security Analysts
  • SOC Engineers
  • Cloud security professionals
  • Incident Responders
  • IT Administrators

Why Choose CloudThat as Your Training Partner?

  • Specialized GCP Focus: CloudThat specializes in cloud technologies, offering focused and specialized training programs. We are Authorized Trainers for the Google Cloud Platform. This specialization ensures in-depth coverage of GCP services, use cases, best practices, and hands-on experience tailored specifically for GCP.
  • Industry-Recognized Trainers: CloudThat has a strong pool of industry-recognized trainers certified by GCP. These trainers bring real-world experience and practical insights into the training sessions, comprehensively understanding how GCP is applied in different industries and scenarios.
  • Hands-On Learning Approach: CloudThat emphasizes a hands-on learning approach. Learners can access practical labs, real-world projects, and case studies that simulate actual GCP environments. This approach allows learners to apply theoretical knowledge in practical scenarios, enhancing their understanding and skill set.
  • Customized Learning Paths: CloudThat understands that learners have different levels of expertise and varied learning objectives. We offer customized learning paths, catering to beginners, intermediate learners, and professionals seeking advanced GCP skills.
  • Interactive Learning Experience: CloudThat's training programs are designed to be interactive and engaging. We utilize various teaching methodologies like live sessions, group discussions, quizzes, and mentorship to keep learners engaged and motivated throughout the course.
  • Placement Assistance and Career Support: CloudThat often provides placement assistance and career support services. This includes resume building, interview preparation, and connecting learners with job opportunities through our network of industry partners and companies looking for GCP-certified professionals.
  • Continuous Learning and Updates: CloudThat ensures that our course content is regularly updated to reflect the latest trends, updates, and best practices within the GCP ecosystem. This commitment to keeping the content current enables learners to stay ahead in their GCP knowledge.

Learning objective of Professional Security Operations Engineer Certification

  • By the end of this course, learners will be equipped to detect, monitor, analyze, investigate, and respond to security threats across workloads, endpoints, and cloud infrastructure using Google Cloud Security tools.
  • They will gain practical experience with Security Command Center Enterprise, Chronicle Security Operations, Google Threat Intelligence, and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) SOC tools.
  • Participants will develop skills to build detection rules, prioritize and ingest logs, automate responses, manage compliance, and leverage AI-powered capabilities with Gemini to navigate complex security decisions.

Course Outline Download Course Outline

  • Describe SCC Enterprise’s Core Functionality and Additional Features
  • Explore SCC Enterprise Vulnerability Management Features
  • Leverage SCC Enterprise Threat Detection Features

Activities

  • Quiz

  • Security Command Center Overview
  • Assets and Sources
  • Detection
  • Compliance Findings

Activities

  • Quiz

  • Introduction
  • What is Google Threat Intelligence
  • Incident Response
  • Gemini in Threat Intelligence
  • Advanced Threat Hunting
  • Digital Threat Monitoring

Activities

  • Quiz

  • Chronicle Security Operations Platform Overview
  • Investigation
  • Search and Detection
  • Playbooks and Dashboards
  • Managing Responses

Activities

  • Quiz

  • Chronicle Security Operations Architecture
  • Ingestion and Enrichment
  • Building Detections
  • Marketplace and Settings

Activities

  • Quiz

  • GCD Platform Overview • The infrastructure operator SecOps roles in GDC
  • SOC processes in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped
  • SOC tools for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped
  • Default logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts in Splunk SIEM

Activities

  • Discussion

  • Monitoring and intake for Tier 1 analysts
  • Incident response for Tier 2 analysts
  • Runbooks in action: Predefined incident response processes for Tier 1 and Tier 2 analysts

Activities

  • Quiz

  • Introduction
  • Modernizing Cyber Threat Management
  • SecOps 101
  • Autonomic Security Operations Overview
  • Continuous Detection, Continuous Response
  • Get started with ASO

Activities

  • Quiz

  • Lab

Objectives

  • In this lab, you will learn how to use Gemini, an AI-powered collaborator in Google Cloud, to navigate and understand different areas of security in your environment in Security Command Centre.

  • Lab

Objectives

  • Analyse a false positive threat using the Security Command Centre (SCC) and take action to address it.

  • Challenge Lab

Objectives

  • In a challenge lab you’re given a scenario and a set of tasks. Instead of following step-by-step instructions, you will use the skills learned from the labs in the course to figure out how to complete the tasks on your own

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FAQs:

The main goal is to equip learners with the skills to detect, monitor, investigate, and respond to security threats using Google Cloud’s Security Operations tools and best practices.

This course is ideal for security analysts, SOC engineers, cloud security professionals, incident responders, and IT administrators working with Google Cloud environments

Basic knowledge of cloud computing and fundamental security concepts is recommended, but the course starts at an introductory level and builds practical skills step by step.

You’ll get hands-on experience with Security Command Center Enterprise, Chronicle Security Operations, Google Threat Intelligence, and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) SOC tools.

Yes. The course includes practical labs, quizzes, discussion activities, and challenge labs to apply what you learn in real-world scenarios.

Yes. This course helps you build the skills required for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Operations Engineer exam.

The course is divided into 11 modules covering fundamentals, deep dives into tools, threat intelligence, SOC operations, automation, AI-powered security decision-making, and hands-on labs.

You’ll learn how to detect and respond to threats, build detection rules, manage compliance, automate security operations, use threat intelligence, and apply AI tools like Gemini for decision support.

Each module includes quizzes and practical activities to test your understanding. Challenge labs simulate real-life incidents to assess your readiness.

This course combines Google Cloud’s advanced security tools with modern SOC practices, AI integration, and hands-on experience - giving you both technical and practical skills that are immediately applicable in enterprise environments.

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