Get OGOTC Certified
Offensive GCP Operations and Tactics Certification Course
- Level > Beginner to Advanced
- Real world Google Cloud attack labs
Operate inside Google Cloud like a real adversary. OGOTC teaches how to enumerate, exploit, and persist in GCP environments using the same techniques seen during cloud red team engagements. Students learn IAM abuse, service account compromise, Kubernetes and GKE attacks, lateral movement across projects, and post exploitation tradecraft inside a private GCP lab.
Certification Outcomes
- Become an officially certified Offensive GCP Operator, recognized by consultants and internal security teams responsible for cloud adversary simulation.
- Start training in the student portal and deploy your GCP lab using your own project and access keys. Build, reset, or destroy environments at any time. Track cloud cost, set budgets, and enforce automatic lab stop rules directly from the portal.
Used by consultants, operators, and security teams testing real Google Cloud environments.
What This Certification Course Delivers
The Offensive GCP Operations and Tactics Certification validates the ability to conduct offensive operations inside Google Cloud Platform.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Enumerate GCP projects and IAM relationships
- Abuse service accounts and default agents
- Exploit metadata and credential exposure
- Attack GKE and Kubernetes workloads
- Move laterally between projects
- Escalate privileges through role misuse
- Perform cloud persistence techniques
- Produce a professional cloud assessment report
Student Portal, Lab Deployment, Budget, and Cost Controls
All students are onboarded into the White Knight Labs student portal where all certification content is delivered in Markdown format.
The portal provides:
- Guided deployment of a private GCP lab
- Integration using student GCP credentials
- Build, reset, and destroy controls
- Live cost tracking and usage visibility
- Budget thresholds and auto stop rules
- Full administrative control of resources
- Private isolated environment per student
Students control their cloud environment just as during a real engagement.
GCP Attack Platform Setup
The opening phase of OGOTC focuses on establishing an operator platform inside Google Cloud before any attack against the lab organization begins. Students configure tooling, identities, and access required to operate as a realistic cloud adversary.
The setup includes:
- GCloud CLI and API based operations
- Service account impersonation
- OAuth and credential handling
- Container and GKE access methods
- Logging and telemetry awareness
Once validated, students use this platform to attack the course GCP environment.
Lab Environment Overview
The OGOTC lab mirrors real enterprise GCP deployments and supports full cloud attack workflows.
Includes:
- Multiple GCP projects and resources
- IAM roles and misconfigurations
- GKE clusters and workloads
- Storage, compute, and serverless
- Cross project trust relationships
Students execute full cloud attack paths rather than isolated tasks.
Real World Defensive Targets
OGOTC is built around controls encountered during live cloud assessments.
- GCP IAM guardrails
- Organization policies
- Audit logging and alerts
- Service agent protections
These targets reflect environments that challenged White Knight Labs operators on real engagements.
Designed to Challenge Cloud Operators
OGOTC is intentionally practical.
Students will experience:
- Blocked API operations
- Permission boundaries
- Logging driven detection
- Complex IAM relationships
Completion demonstrates the ability to:
- Operate as a cloud adversary
- Abuse real misconfigurations
- Move across projects
- Lead cloud assessments with confidence
Why OGOTC Exists
Most cloud training teaches administration. Real engagements require thinking like an attacker who abuses misconfigurations, IAM relationships, and cloud services. OGOTC teaches operators how to compromise GCP environments end to end using workflows White Knight Labs uses on client assessments.
- Attack cloud identities instead of servers
- Abuse service accounts and metadata
- Move across projects and organizations
- Extract data without triggering alerts
The OGOTC Transformation
Before OGOTC
- Understands GCP as an administrator only
- Limited knowledge of IAM attack paths
- Unsure how attackers abuse service agents
- Relies on generic cloud checklists
After OGOTC
- Enumerates real attack surface in GCP
- Chains IAM misconfigurations
- Abuses GKE and service accounts
- Performs realistic cloud post exploitation
Here's a sneak peek of your training experience
A sample video is available to provide a sneak peek into the certification course structure.
Table of Contents Preview Download
All course material is delivered through the student portal. For transparency, students may download the Table of Contents to review the scope of topics covered prior to enrollment.
GCP Focus Areas
Hands on training across:
- IAM enumeration and abuse
- Service account compromise
- Metadata exploitation
- GKE and container attacks
- Storage and data exfiltration
- Persistence in GCP
- Lateral movement in cloud
- Reporting and remediation
Built From Real Engagements
Every major lab was derived from techniques and problems encountered during White Knight Labs cloud operations.
- IAM chains seen in clients
- GKE escape scenarios
- Service agent abuse
- Reporting based on delivered work
Who This Course Is For
Who This Course Is Not For
- Red team operators moving to lead roles
- Consultants needing infrastructure skills
- Internal breach simulation teams
- Engineers transitioning to offense
- Zero cloud experience
- Theory only learners
- Multiple choice seekers
How OGOTC Is Different
Most cloud courses teach configuration. OGOTC teaches exploitation. Students learn to think like an attacker inside Google Cloud, not an administrator following hardening guides.
Certification Exam Requirements
The exam is performance based inside the GCP lab.
Students must:
- Enumerate attack surface
- Exploit IAM paths
- Compromise resources
- Capture flags
- Demonstrate persistence
- Submit a professional report
What You Receive
- Lifetime course access
- Ongoing updates
- Private GCP lab
- Portal automation
- Budget controls
- Discord support
- One exam voucher
- Official OGOTC certification
Enrollment Information
On demand certification.
Progress at your pace.
All deployment and cost control handled in the portal.
Certified for Real World Red Team Operations
- Validated Cloud Offensive Expertise
- Proves ability to exploit real GCP environments
- Badge reflects practical compromise, not attendance
- Demonstrates IAM and GKE attack mastery
- Industry Recognition & Trust
- Built by active red team operators
- Used by teams testing cloud platforms
- Signals real world cloud attack proficiency
- Independent Operator Mindset
- Performance based labs and flags
- Independent cloud problem solving
- Documented in a professional report
Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q)
Is OGOTC beginner friendly
- Yes. OGOTC is designed as a beginner to advanced certification course. Students new to GCP can start with foundational content, while experienced practitioners can move quickly into advanced attack paths.
What prior knowledge is recommended
- Basic familiarity with cloud concepts, Linux command line usage, and scripting is recommended. Prior GCP experience is helpful but not required.
What is the student portal
- The student portal is the central platform where all course content, labs, and certification workflows are managed. All materials are delivered in Markdown format and accessed through the portal.
How do students access the labs
- Students deploy and manage their own Google Cloud lab environment through the student portal using their GCP account and credentials. The portal guides deployment and provides visibility into the environment.
Are lab environments shared with other students
- No. Each student deploys and controls a private, isolated GCP environment.
Can I start, stop, or rebuild the lab environment
- Yes. Students can destroy, rebuild, and reset lab environments at any time through the portal.
Do I need my own GCP account
- Yes. Students must have a Google Cloud account with an active billing account and permission to create projects and resources.
Does the course incur cloud costs
- Yes. Students are responsible for Google Cloud usage costs incurred while running labs.
Does the student portal track cloud cost
- Yes. The portal provides cost visibility and usage awareness to help students monitor and manage their GCP spend.
Can I set budgets or limit spending
- Yes. Students can configure budgets and usage limits within their GCP account. The course provides guidance on managing cost effectively.
How do students interact with the lab environment
- Students interact with GCP resources using the GCloud CLI, APIs, and cloud native tooling from their own systems.
Does OGOTC include real world GCP attack scenarios
- Yes. OGOTC is built around real attack paths, IAM misconfigurations, and abuse patterns observed during White Knight Labs cloud assessments and red team engagements.
Does the course cover IAM abuse
- Yes. IAM enumeration, role abuse, service account compromise, and permission chaining are core components of OGOTC.
Does OGOTC include Kubernetes and GKE attacks
- Yes. The course includes offensive techniques targeting Google Kubernetes Engine and containerized workloads.
Are defensive controls included
- Yes. Labs include IAM guardrails, organization policies, logging, and defensive controls similar to those used in real GCP environments.
Is this course self study or instructor led
- This is a self paced, on demand certification course.
Where is support provided
- Support is provided over Discord by instructors and other students who have purchased the course.
How often is OGOTC updated
- The course is updated regularly to reflect changes in GCP services, attack techniques, and defensive controls.
How long do I have access to the course
- Course and portal access does not expire at this time and remains available for the life of the certification.
Is there a certification exam
- Yes. OGOTC includes a performance based certification exam completed inside the student deployed GCP lab environment.
How long is the certification exam
- The exam is 48 hours long with an additional 48 hours to submit the professional certification report.
Does the exam voucher expire
- No. One exam voucher is included with the course and does not expire.
What is required to pass the exam
- Students must enumerate the environment, exploit attack paths, capture required flags, demonstrate persistence, and submit a professional report documenting the attack flow.
Is this course designed to be challenging
- Yes. OGOTC is intentionally hands on and realistic. Students will encounter permission boundaries, logging, and misconfigurations that require analysis and adaptation.
What language is the course delivered in
- English is the only supported language at this time. Browser based translation tools may assist but are not officially supported.
