Google PCA Designing for Security and Compliance Practice Question
A company wants to encrypt data at rest in Cloud Storage using a key that they generate and manage themselves, not stored in Google Cloud. Which encryption type should they use?
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CSEK
CSEK (Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys) allows customers to provide their own encryption keys for Cloud Storage objects, which are used and then discarded by GCP.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
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Data
Data is raw, unprocessed information, like numbers, words, or measurements, that can be stored, processed, and analyzed by computers.
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Cloud storage
Cloud storage is a service that lets you save data on remote servers accessed over the internet instead of on your computer's hard drive.
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