Best practicesVM disk without Customer-Supplied Encryption Key
Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
- Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD) ,
- CCM-CSA ,
- CCPA ,
- cis_8 ,
- CPRA ,
- Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices ,
- GCP CIS ,
- GDPR ,
- HITRUST ,
- iso_27001_2022 ,
- iso_27002_2022 ,
- Mitre ATT&CK ,
- mpa ,
- New Zealand Information Security Manual ,
- NIST 800-190 ,
- NIST 800-53 ,
- PDPA ,
- UK Cyber Essentials
Description
Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys (CSEK) are a feature in Google Cloud Storage and Google Compute Engine. If you supply your own encryption keys, Google uses your key to protect the Google-generated keys used to encrypt and decrypt your data. By default, Google Compute Engine encrypts all data at rest. Compute Engine handles and manages this encryption for you without any additional actions on your part. However, if you wanted to control and manage this encryption yourself, you can provide your own encryption keys. At least business critical VMs should have VM disks encrypted with CSEK.
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