At the core of cloud data encryption is a thorough knowledge of Customer-Managed Encryption Keying (CMEK). In this course, Implementing Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) with Google Key Management Service, you’ll see how to implement and manage encryption keys on the Google Cloud Platform. First, you’ll learn what symmetric and asymmetric keys are and how to create and rotate them. Next, you’ll explore how to protect secrets using symmetric keys and how to validate them using digital signatures. Finally, you’ll discover how to use advanced features to further secure your data and resources on the cloud. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of the Google Key Management Service that will help you as you move forward to create and rotate cloud-hosted keys and manage secrets on the GCP.
Author Name: Vitthal Srinivasan
Author Description:
Vitthal has spent a lot of his life studying – he holds Masters Degrees in Math and Electrical Engineering from Stanford, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai. He has also spent a lot of his life working – as a derivatives quant at Credit Suisse in New York, then as a quant trader, first with a hedge fund in Greenwich and then on his own, and finally at Google in Singapore and Flipkart in Bangalore. In all these roles, he has written a lot of code, and b… more