Google Professional Security Operations Engineer

Google Professional Security Operations Engineer 

The Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Operations Engineer Exam has been developed to analyze your skills with the ability to detect, monitor, analyze, investigate, and respond to security threats against workloads, endpoints, and infrastructure. Candidates are required to use Google Cloud resources to protect an enterprise environment and have proficiency in writing detection rules, log prioritization and ingestion, orchestration, and response automation. Further, this individual has experience leveraging posture and threat intelligence for detection and response.

Who should take this exam?

The Google Professional Security Operations Engineer exam is suitable for -

• Security Analysts and Engineers managing detection and response on Google Cloud.
• SOC Analysts and Incident Responders handling threats and incidents daily.
• Threat Hunters identifying vulnerabilities and anomalous behavior.
• Cloud Security Professionals using Google SecOps and SCC tools.
• System Admins or Security Architects moving into cloud security operations.

Skills Required

• Detecting, analyzing, and responding to security threats across cloud environments.
• Using Google Security Operations (SecOps) and Security Command Center (SCC).
• Managing access control and permissions with IAM.
• Developing and tuning detection rules and alerts.
• Performing incident response and forensic investigations.
• Building and automating response playbooks.
• Ingesting, normalizing, and analyzing security logs.
• Creating dashboards and reports for visibility and metrics.
• Applying threat intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
• Monitoring system health using Cloud Monitoring and Looker Studio.
• Managing cloud security posture and compliance.

Course Outline

The Google Professional Security Operations Engineer Practice Exam

• Domain 1: Understand Platform Operations (~14%)
• Domain 2: Understand Data Management (~14%)
• Domain 3: Understand Threat Hunting (~19%)
• Domain 4: Understand Detection Engineering (~22%)
• Domain 5: Understand Incident Response (~21%)
• Domain 6: Understand Observability (~10%)