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Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer
The **Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer** certification validates expertise in detecting, monitoring, analyzing, investigating, and responding to security threats against workloads, endpoints, and infrastructure using Google Cloud security tools.
This path prepares learners to protect enterprise environments using Google Security Operations (SIEM & SOAR), Security Command Center, and Google Threat Intelligence. Topics include platform operations, data management, detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, and observability across Google Cloud environments.
- Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer: Platform Operations - Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer: Data Management - Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer: Threat Hunting - Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer: Detection Engineering - Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer: Incident Response - Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer: Observability
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Path Courses
Watch the following courses to get learning about security operations engineering on Google Cloud and prepare for the Professional Security Operations Engineer certification exam!
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What You'll Learn
- How to manage and configure Google Cloud security platform operations
- How to ingest, prioritize, and manage security data and log sources
- How to perform threat hunting across environment logs using Google Security Operations
- How to write and tune detection rules using YARA-L and detection engineering best practices
- How to respond to and automate incident response workflows using Google Cloud tools
- How to implement observability and monitoring strategies for security operations environments
- Learners should have at least three years of experience in the security industry, including at least one year of hands-on experience using Google Cloud security tools such as Chronicle Security Operations, Security Command Center, and Cloud Logging. Familiarity with core security operations concepts — including threat detection, log analysis, and incident response — is strongly recommended before beginning this path
- Google Cloud Platform
- SIEM
- SOAR
- Security Command Center
- Google Threat Intelligence
- Detection Engineering
- Incident Response
- Cloud Security
