Cloud Key Management Service

Differences in AWS KMS Azure Key vault and GCP KMS

AWS KMS Vs Azure Key Vault Vs GCP 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?

Azure Key Vault streamlines the secret, key, and certificate management process and enables you to maintain strict control over secrets/keys that access and encrypt your data

Microsoft Azure Services – Azure Key Vault

Google Cloud Platform’s Data Loss Protection API provides a service that can make organizations manage sensitive data, including detecting and redaction, masking, and tokenizing such data. This can help organizations comply with regulations such as GDPR, and reduce the risk of data exposure and data breaches.

Data Loss Prevention in Cloud Computing – GCP’s DLP API

cloud data lake security

Cloud Data Lake 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

In this article, we will take a closer look at Google’s Cloud Key Management Services. When users store data into Google Cloud, the data is automatically encrypted at rest. We use Google’s Cloud Key Management service to gain better control over managing the encrypted data-at-rest and encryption keys.

Google Cloud Security- Key Management Services

Encryption Algorithm

Retain Control of your Encryption Keys on the Cloud

FPE is an encryption mechanism that keeps data encrypted while databases and applications remain functional. FPE preserves the format of the data which allows legacy systems and networks to remain functional while data is encrypted. GCP provides a DLP API which offers FPE through their platform. This helps in making all types of systems and programs functional/available and also improves data auditability by removing all PII data within it.

Format Preserving Encryption with NIST recommendations

Key Management Recommendations and Best Practices

Key Management – Recommendations and Best Practices