Google Cybersecurity study plan

Explain the CIA triad and apply each principle to three realistic workplace scenarios

Classify ten organizational assets by sensitivity, owner, and data type using a written inventory

Differentiate at least six threat actor types and match each to a plausible motive and target

Compute likelihood-times-impact risk scores for five identified threats and rank them

Map an organization's existing safeguards to the five NIST Cybersecurity Framework functions

Select and justify at least eight controls spanning administrative, technical, and physical categories

Outline a vulnerability management cycle from scan through remediation with target timeframes

Draft an incident response playbook for one scenario (phishing) covering detection, containment, and recovery

Trace a TCP/IP packet flow across the OSI layers for an HTTPS request

Compare stateful and stateless firewalls and place each correctly in a reference architecture

Build a firewall rule table of allow/deny entries for a small office with a DMZ, permitting only required ports

Explain how VPNs, forward proxies, and reverse proxies each protect a network perimeter

Identify indicators of denial-of-service, on-path, and packet-sniffing attacks from written packet-capture summaries

Apply network hardening measures (port filtering, segmentation, access control) to a case scenario

Distinguish the customer and provider responsibilities across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

Describe how IDS/IPS, SIEM, and log ingestion chain together in a detection pipeline