Fortanix External Key Control and Management for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Fortanix External Key Manager generates and stores encryption keys outside of Google Cloud (GCP) and within customer datacenters. Customers can achieve an unshared control over their Google Cloud keys and natively encrypted data.

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Overview

Most organizations are looking to move their data and workloads into the public cloud. But they are held back because of compliance reasons or regulatory reasons and they are not comfortable with the cloud holding onto their keys. Organizations need greater control and security over their cloud keys.

Fortanix integrates with Google Cloud Platform’s External Key Manager service to enable organizations to move the data to the cloud and get the same level of security for keys that they're used to in their own on-prem environments. Protect your BigQuery and other cloud native services data by doing server-side encryption. Keys for the encryption are never stored at GCP. They are always under your control, away from the cloud. At a click of a button, in real time, enable and disable access to your data from specific instances and locations.

What we do

External key management

 Encrypt data in the google cloud using encryption keys stored outside the cloud. Enforce access to data at rest for BigQuery and Compute Engine.

Control full key lifecycle

Maintain full control and visibility into key creation, location, and distribution of cloud keys.

Runtime Encryption® protection

Runtime Encryption® Technology plugin uses Intel® SGX Secure Enclave technology to protect data always.

Featured Resource

Gartner_®

Develop an Enterprisewide Encryption Key Management Strategy or Lose the Data

According to Gartner, "Privacy and data breaches continue to be widespread due to lack of data security governance and operational frameworks for encryption."

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Benefits

Complete control of keys

Fortanix allows customers to stop decryption of data-at-rest with a kill switch and the key material never leaves the Fortanix Key Management Service. Customer gets complete control of how to authorize the use of the Google Cloud’s External Key Manager keys.

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Meet compliance requirements

Fortanix offers a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified appliance, to store the cloud keys on-premises and enabling financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries to meet compliance requirements.

Simplified and centralized encryption

Fortanix with Google Cloud’s External Key Manager provides a single, simple, and centralized encryption platform that accelerates moving applications to public cloud, while also providing a single set of cryptographic services to on-premises, hybrid, and cloud workload.

When you move to the cloud, you lose that control...
So the Fortanix solution brings an ability to control the keys externally. You can turn the keys off, turn them on– they are totally under your control. The other advantage is with PayPal’s requirements is it actually enables new business use cases to go to the cloud. quote-right