The Architecture Center provides content resources across a wide variety of security and identity and access management (IAM) subjects.
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If you are new to Google Cloud or new to designing for security and IAM on Google Cloud, begin with these resources:
- Enterprise foundations blueprint
- Identity and access management overview
- Landing zone design in Google Cloud
Security and IAM resources in the Architecture Center
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Automate malware scanning for files uploaded to Cloud Storage This document shows you how to build an event-driven pipeline that can help you automate the evaluation of files for malicious code. Products used: Cloud Logging, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Eventarc |
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Best practices for mitigating compromised OAuth tokens for Google Cloud CLI Describes how to mitigate the impact of an attacker compromising the OAuth tokens that are used by the gcloud CLI. Products used: Google Cloud CLI |
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Best practices for protecting against cryptocurrency mining attacks Cryptocurrency mining (also known as bitcoin mining ) is the process used to create new cryptocoins and verify transactions. Crytocurrency mining attacks occurs when attackers who gain access to your environment might also exploit your resources to... Products used: Cloud Key Management Service, Compute Engine, Google Cloud Armor, Identity and Access Management |
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Best practices for securing your applications and APIs using Apigee Describes best practices that can help you to secure your applications and APIs using Apigee API management, Google Cloud Armor, reCAPTCHA Enterprise, and Cloud CDN. Products used: Cloud CDN |
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Build and deploy generative AI and machine learning models in an enterprise Describes the generative AI and machine learning (ML) blueprint, which deploys a pipeline for creating AI models. |
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Build hybrid and multicloud architectures using Google Cloud Provides practical guidance on planning and architecting your hybrid and multi-cloud environments using Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, GKE Enterprise, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Building internet connectivity for private VMs Describes options for connecting to and from the internet using Compute Engine resources that have private IP addresses. Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Compute Engine, Identity-Aware Proxy |
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C3 AI architecture on Google Cloud Develop applications using C3 AI and Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Virtual Private Cloud |
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Configure networks for FedRAMP and DoD in Google Cloud Provides configuration guidance to help you to comply with design requirements for FedRAMP High and DoD IL2, IL4, and IL5 when you deploy Google Cloud networking policies. |
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Configuring SaaS data protection for Google Workspace data with Spin.AI How to configure SpinOne - All-in-One SaaS Data Protection with Cloud Storage. |
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Controls to restrict access to individually approved APIs Many organizations have a compliance requirement to restrict network access to an explicitly approved list of APIs, based on internal requirements or as part of adopting Assured Workloads. On-premises, this requirement is often addressed with proxy... |
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Data management with Cohesity Helios and Google Cloud How Cohesity works with Google Cloud Storage. Cohesity is a hyperconverged secondary storage system for consolidating backup, test/dev, file services, and analytic datasets onto a scalable data platform. Products used: Cloud Storage |
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Discusses how to use Sensitive Data Protection to create an automated data transformation pipeline to de-identify sensitive data like personally identifiable information (PII). Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Identity and Access Management, Sensitive Data Protection |
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Decide the network design for your Google Cloud landing zone This document describes four common network designs for landing zones, and helps you choose the option that best meets your requirements. Products used: VPC Service Controls, Virtual Private Cloud |
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Deploy a secured serverless architecture using Cloud Run Provides guidance on how to help protect serverless applications that use Cloud Run by layering additional controls onto your existing foundation. Products used: Cloud Run |
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Deploy a secured serverless architecture using Cloud Run functions Provides guidance on how to help protect serverless applications that use Cloud Functions (2nd gen) by layering additional controls onto your existing foundation. Products used: Cloud Functions |
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Deploy an enterprise developer platform on Google Cloud Describes the enterprise application blueprint, which deploys an internal developer platform that provides managed software development and delivery. |
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Deploy network monitoring and telemetry capabilities in Google Cloud Network telemetry collects network traffic data from devices on your network so that the data can be analyzed. Network telemetry lets security operations teams detect network-based threats and hunt for advanced adversaries, which is essential for... Products used: Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Virtual Private Cloud |
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Design secure deployment pipelines Describes best practices for designing secure deployment pipelines based on your confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements. Products used: App Engine, Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Designing networks for migrating enterprise workloads: Architectural approaches This document introduces a series that describes networking and security architectures for enterprises that are migrating data center workloads to Google Cloud. These architectures emphasize advanced connectivity, zero-trust security principles, and... Products used: Cloud CDN, Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Intrusion Detection System (Cloud IDS), Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Cloud Service Mesh, Cloud VPN, Google Cloud Armor, Identity-Aware Proxy, Network Connectivity Center, VPC Service Controls, Virtual Private Cloud |
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Disaster recovery planning guide The first part of a series that discusses disaster recovery (DR) in Google Cloud. This part provides an overview of the DR planning process: what you need to know in order to design and implement a DR plan. Products used: Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Storage, Spanner |
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Discusses how the edge hybrid pattern addresses connectivity challenges by running time- and business-critical workloads locally, at the edge of the network. Products used: Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Enterprise foundations blueprint This series presents an opinionated view of Google Cloud security best practices, organized to allow users to deploy them for their workloads on Google Cloud. |
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Discusses how to keep the production environment of a workload in the existing data center but use the public cloud for other, non-production environments. Products used: Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Federate Google Cloud with Active Directory Products used: Cloud Identity, Google Cloud Directory Sync |
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Federate Google Cloud with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Products used: Google Cloud Directory Sync |
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FortiGate architecture in Google Cloud Describes the overall concepts around deploying a FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) in Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Compute Engine, Virtual Private Cloud |
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Google Cloud FedRAMP implementation guide This guide is intended for security officers, compliance officers, IT admins, and other employees who are responsible for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) implementation and compliance on Google Cloud. This guide helps you... Products used: Cloud Identity, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud VPN, Google Cloud Armor, Google Workspace, Identity and Access Management, Identity-Aware Proxy, Security Command Center |
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Hybrid and multicloud architecture patterns Discusses common hybrid and multicloud architecture patterns, and describes the scenarios that these patterns are best suited for. Products used: Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Armor, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Looker |
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Identify and prioritize security risks with Wiz Security Graph and Google Cloud Describes how to identify and prioritize security risks in your cloud workloads with Wiz Security Graph and Google Cloud. Products used: Artifact Registry, Cloud Audit Logs, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Security Command Center |
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Implement your Google Cloud landing zone network design This document provides steps and guidance to implement your chosen network design for your landing zone. Products used: Virtual Private Cloud |
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Import data from an external network into a secured BigQuery data warehouse Describes an architecture that you can use to help secure a data warehouse in a production environment, and provides best practices for importing data into BigQuery from an external network such as an on-premises environment. Products used: BigQuery |
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Import data from Google Cloud into a secured BigQuery data warehouse Describes an architecture that you can use to help secure a data warehouse in a production environment, and provides best practices for data governance of a data warehouse in Google Cloud. Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Key Management Service, Dataflow, Sensitive Data Protection |
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Landing zone design in Google Cloud This series shows how to design and build a landing zone in Google Cloud, guiding you through high-level decisions about identity onboarding, resource hierarchy, network design, and security. |
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Limiting scope of compliance for PCI environments in Google Cloud Describes best practices for architecting your cloud environment for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council compliance. Products used: App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management, Sensitive Data Protection |
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Manage just-in-time privileged access to projects Describes how you can use an open source tool to implement just-in-time privileged access to Google Cloud resources. Products used: App Engine, Identity-Aware Proxy |
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Helps you plan, design, and implement the process of migrating your application and infrastructure workloads to Google Cloud, including computing, database, and storage workloads. Products used: App Engine, Cloud Build, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Deployment Manager, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Container Registry, Data Catalog, Dataflow, Direct Peering, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Transfer Appliance |
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Mitigating ransomware attacks using Google Cloud Code created by a third party to infiltrate your systems to hijack, encrypt, and steal data is referred to as ransomware. To help you mitigate ransomware attacks, Google Cloud provides you with controls for identifying, protecting, detecting,... Products used: Google Security Operations, Google Workspace |
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Overview of identity and access management Explores the general practice of identity and access management (generally referred to as IAM) and the individuals who are subject to it, including corporate identities, customer identities, and service identities. Products used: Cloud Identity, Identity and Access Management |
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OWASP Top 10 2021 mitigation options on Google Cloud Helps you identify Google Cloud products and mitigation strategies that can help you defend against common application-level attacks that are outlined in OWASP Top 10. Products used: Google Cloud Armor, Security Command Center |
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PCI Data Security Standard compliance Shows how to implement the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for your business on Google Cloud. Products used: App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Sensitive Data Protection, VPC Service Controls |
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This guide is intended to help you address concerns unique to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications when you are implementing customer responsibilities for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements. Disclaimer: This... Products used: Google Cloud Armor, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Sensitive Data Protection |
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Secure virtual private cloud networks with the Palo Alto VM-Series NGFW Describes the networking concepts that you need to understand to deploy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series next generation firewall (NGFW) in Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud Storage |
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Security blueprint: PCI on GKE The PCI on GKE blueprint contains a set of Terraform configurations and scripts that demonstrate how to bootstrap a PCI environment in Google Cloud. The core of this blueprint is the Online Boutique application, where users can browse items, add them... Products used: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Security log analytics in Google Cloud Shows how to collect, export, and analyze logs from Google Cloud to help you audit usage and detect threats to your data and workloads. Use the included threat detection queries for BigQuery or Chronicle, or bring your own SIEM. Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Looker Studio |
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Set up an embedded finance solution using Google Cloud and Cloudentity Describes architectural options for providing your customers with a seamless and secure embedded finance solution. Products used: Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Identity Platform |
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Use Google Cloud Armor, load balancing, and Cloud CDN to deploy programmable global front ends Provides an architecture that uses a global front end which incorporates Google Cloud best practices to help scale, secure, and accelerate the delivery of your internet-facing applications. |