Cloud Next Generation Firewall documentation
Cloud Next Generation Firewall provides a fully distributed firewall service with
advanced protection capabilities and pervasive coverage to protect your Google Cloud workloads
from internal and external attacks.
Learn more.
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Last updated 2025-08-25 UTC.
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Training \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Configure intrusion detection and prevention service without TLS inspection\n\n\nSet up intrusion detection and prevention service without TLS inspection on a Google Cloud network.\n\n\n75 minutes introductory Free\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud-firewall-plus) \nTraining \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Configure global network firewall policy with Tags\n\n\nSet up a global network firewall policy with secure tags on a Google Cloud network.\n\n\n45 minutes introductory Free\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/network-firewall-policy-tags#0t) \nTraining \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Migrate VPC firewall rules to network firewall policies\n\n\nMigrate your existing VPC firewall rules to network firewall policies.\n\n\n[Learn more](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-for-migrating-to-network-firewall-policies) \nTraining \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Use Terraform to automate hierarchical firewall policy configuration\n\n\nUse Terraform to build hierarchical firewall policies to consistently implement guardrails in the Google Cloud environment.\n\n\n[Learn more](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/hierarchical-firewall-policy-automation-terraform) \nTraining \nTraining and tutorials\n\n### Google Cloud networking 101\n\n\nPerform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud.\n\n\n75 minutes introductory Free\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n[Learn more](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/focuses/1743?parent=catalog)\n\nRelated videos\n--------------"]]
