Google Cloud NGFW — starter kit (Learn more with simple steps)

Ammett W
Google Cloud - Community
2 min readJun 7, 2024

Google Cloud NGFW is a offering from Google Cloud that allows you to secure your environment. Let’s explore how you can easily learn more and where to look.

# 1 — Learn a little about it: Read the product page to get an idea of the product capabilities.
- Landing page- https://cloud.google.com/firewall/docs
- Bloghttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-next-gen-firewall-enterprise-now-in-ga-next24
- Documentation page https://cloud.google.com/firewall/docs/about-firewalls

# 2 — Learn by video: Since you read a little about the product it’s time to check out this short 15 minute demo on the product with configuration steps. The video was created by Googler’s who work with the product. It’s easy to use.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCqnf2E6zn0

# 3 — Learn by doing: There are some hands-on labs that you can do in your own environment. Of course you will decide if you want to try it or not but incase you do there are step by step configuration guides. These were created by Googlers who are networking specilist.
Codelab without TLS Inspection https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud-firewall-plus?hl=en#0
Codelab with TLS Inspectionhttps://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud-ngfw-enterprise-tls?hl=en#1

# 4 — More video: There are a few links for NEXT 24 session where you get the end to end story and may be valuable.
Video - Protect your workload with Google Cloud NGFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUeHQJQFFY&t=7s

Next 24 session

Video Secure your Cloud journey with effortless protection from Palo Alto Networks & Google Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CFs8u-BFVc

next 24 session with palo alto

And just like that you know where to start.. I’ll be in touch

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Ammett W
Google Cloud - Community

DevRel Cloud AI Infra/Networking @ Google | Founder of Start Cloud Now | CCIE#43659, CISSP, Inspiring people as I go along my journey. Learn, Do your best.