{"id":2767,"date":"2017-01-11T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/googles-cloud-platform-gets-a-new-key-management-service.html"},"modified":"2017-01-11T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:30:46","slug":"googles-cloud-platform-gets-a-new-key-management-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/googles-cloud-platform-gets-a-new-key-management-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Cloud Platform gets a new key management service"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Google is launching<\/a> a new key management service<\/a> for its Cloud Platform today that will help enterprises \u2014 especially in regulated industries like healthcare and banking \u2014 create, use, rotate and destroy their encryption keys in the cloud. The aptly named Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) is now available as a beta in select countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enterprises have traditionally managed their keys on-premise, but\u00a0as they have slowly moved more of their workloads to the cloud, they have also started thinking about how they can manage their keys in the cloud, too. With the\u00a0AWS Key Management Service<\/a>\u00a0and Azure Key Vault<\/a>, Amazon and Microsoft have long offered a similar tool, for example, and even Google itself\u00a0already offered a more basic version of Cloud KMS for users who\u00a0wanted to supply their own encryption keys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Google\u2019s Maya Kaczorowski, the product manager for this service, told me, it\u2019s worth remembering that Google itself already encrypts all of the data on its platform by default. But if an enterprise needs more control over its keys to rotate and manage them, the Cloud KMS service is for them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Cloud KMS users can use the service to securely store other secrets like OAuth tokens or configuration credentials on the service, as well. Google tells me that fraud detection provider Ravelin, for example, uses the service to store its users\u2019 configuration and authentication credentials that are needed as part of virtually every transaction on its service in Cloud KMS.<\/p>\n

As Kaczorowski stressed, this also means that the company is able to keep\u00a0the latency of these transactions low. \u201cWe want to be able to be in the serving path of our customers,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want to enable people to encrypt things they weren\u2019t able to before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With the addition of Cloud KMS, Kaczorowski argued, Google now offers its users the full continuum of key management options \u2014 ranging from customer-supplied keys that are kept on-premise and used to secure cloud assets on one side and the default Cloud Platform encryption on the other, with the flexibility of the new Cloud KMS service in the middle.<\/p>\n

Kaczorowski tells me that the service can easily handle hundreds of millions of keys and secrets, so scaling should not be an issue. \u201cFrom the get-go, we architected it to allow customers to use as many keys as they want to,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Google will bill users based on\u00a0the number of keys they store ($0.06 per active key version per month) and how often they use them ($0.03 per key use per 10,000 operations).<\/p>\n

Like most of Google\u2019s latest Cloud Platform updates, today\u2019s launch is also clearly aimed at getting more enterprises to take a serious look at Google\u2019s Cloud Platform. For the longest time, Google didn\u2019t really go after\u00a0these companies, but the company is now putting a renewed emphasis on competing in the enterprise cloud business.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: Veronique Lee<\/a>\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

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