Introduction to Cloud Identity (Coursera)

Introduction to Cloud Identity serves as the starting place for any new Cloud Identity, Identity/Access Management/Mobile Device Management admins as they begin their journey of managing and establishing security and access management best practices for their organization. This 15-30 hour accelerated, one-week course will leave you feeling confident to utilize the basic functions of the Admin Console to manage users, control access to services, configure common security settings, and much more.

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Through a series of introductory lessons, step-by-step hands-on exercises, Google knowledge resources, and knowledge checks, learners can expect to leave this training with all of the skills they need to get started as new Cloud Identity Administrators.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Establish a Cloud Identity domain for their organization or personal domain.

• Add users in order to practice user lifecycle management.

• Modify user permissions to gain an understanding of core Cloud Identity features.

• Add mobile devices within the Google Mobile Management module.

• Modify mobile management policy sets to gain familiarity with product options.

• Navigate the Reports module, and practice running reports.

• Explore and apply different security protocols to the domain.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Getting Started with Cloud Identity

In this module, we guide you through the Cloud Identity product, and walk you through setting up your account and Google Cloud Identity free trial to use during training.

User Lifecycle Management

In this module, you'll learn about provisioning and managing users in your Cloud Identity domain. The exercises cover how to add new users in various ways and how to configure user identities, settings, and privileges.

Security

In this module, you will walk you through some of the security features that are available to you as the Cloud Identity admin.

Mobile Management

In this module, you'll learn about Google mobile device management settings, understand how to enforce device policies over their mobile fleet using the Google Admin console, and learn how to prevent unauthorized access to an account from a lost mobile device.

Domains and Reports

In this module, you will learn how to do basic domain management and report generation from the Google Cloud Identity Admin Console.

Summary, Use Case Example, & Resources

This module serves as the summary of your training and also provides you with two case studies that will help you think about practical applications of Google Cloud Identity.