Virtual private clouds in the Google Cloud Platform allow even complex network infrastructures to be created quickly and easily. But as any IT manager will confirm, fast does not always mean right – and that is a problem in the cloud, especially when it comes to security. In this workshop, we will therefore show you which on-board tools ensure security. In the first part, we will explain the concept of shared VPCs and how you can secure virtual private clouds with firewalls.
With virtual private clouds (VPCs), Google and other hyperscalers have revolutionised network management (in the cloud). While it is still somewhat cumbersome to dynamically create and manage networks in local IT, despite new developments such as software-defined networking (SDN), cloud providers offer an API that allows network constructs such as VPCs to be created in no time at all.
However, it is not uncommon for the management of cloud networks to be in the hands of DevOps teams. And their level of knowledge is not always sufficient to ensure that all security concerns are properly addressed. In addition, the field of network security is relatively large and requires expertise in creating VPCs and their subnets, routing, firewalls, flow log analysis and threat detection. We therefore present these key security techniques in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) below.
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