cloud key management

Microsoft Azure is one of the three biggest Cloud Service Providers used by organizations today. The other two mainly used by organizations are Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) . With the current state of the world, many companies are moving their services to a partially or fully cloud-based platform like Azure or AWS.

How You Can Make Organizations More Complaint With Microsoft Azure?

NIST Cybersecurity framework with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in Google Cloud

AWS CloudHSM provides single-tenant key storage giving organizations FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliance. CloudHSM allows full control of your keys, including Symmetric (AES), Asymmetric (RSA), SHA-256, SHA 512, Hash-Based, or Digital Signatures (RSA). On the other hand, AWS Key Management Service is multi-tenant key storage owned and managed by AWS. AWS KMS allows Customer Master Keys for symmetric key encryption (AES-256-XTS) and asymmetric keys (RSA or elliptic curve (ECC))

How Secure Are Key Management Services of Amazon (AWS KMS)?

Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies. The cloud is in the top three IT investment priorities for businesses, according to the newest Flexera survey. In fact, our own David Close, chief solutions architect at Futurex, wrote about how enterprises are commonly using multiple clouds for diversification and to fulfill requirements and regulations in his article, Maintaining Control Over Your Security Infrastructure in a Multi-Cloud World.

What’s trending in enterprise security?

Regulations and Compliances depend on the country organizations operate in. It is essential to research CSP and the regulations and compliance they are following

Cloud Security Compliance Standards – PCI DSS and GDPR

AWS Key Management

Deep Dive on AWS-Key Management Service

KMS, IAM, and DLP can also be integrated with Google Cloud Functions to encrypt data when uploaded to Google Cloud Storage automatically. Google Cloud Dataflow can use DLP and KMS to encrypt data automatically from several different storage locations. This shows how users can create their own, potentially more robust data encryption methods to assist in the storage of sensitive data on the Cloud.

Google Cloud Platform’s Data Encryption Tools – KMS, HSMs, and PKIs

Cloud storage encrypts data on the server-side before it is written to disk, at no additional charge. Besides this standard, there are additional ways to encrypt the data while using Cloud Storage.

Google Cloud Security – Data Encryption

As organizations step up their cloud journey as fast as possible to utilize the advantages of the cloud e.g. scalability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, they have to parallelly think about data security in their IT landscape. This makes encryption, and subsequently HSMs, an inevitable component of an organization’s Cybersecurity strategy.Based on the use cases, we can classify HSMs into two categories: Cloud-based HSMs and On-Prem HSMsIn regards to the classification of HSMs (On-prem vs Cloud-based HSM), kindly be clear that the cryptographic technology is the same, but delivered via different methods.

Cloud-based vs On-premises HSMs

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is mostly about managing secure digital identities that enable ways to protect data and know the subject’s (a subject could be anything such as a computer, a person, a router or a service) identity when sharing information over untrusted networks. PKI is essential to most businesses and their applications today.

Cloud-based PKI – GCP, AWS, and Azure