Here's What You Missed: Mastering Key Management in a Multi-Cloud Environment
As multi-cloud environments become commonplace for the majority of enterprise businesses, key management across major cloud providers creates a cloud-to-cloud obstacle as each provider utilizes a platform-specific method of key management. All major cloud providers protect customer data by using transparent encryption, which results in the cloud platform managing the encryption keys. Platform-centric key management creates key management control issues when users & applications are utilizing multiple cloud platforms. From this multi-cloud key management obstacle, the Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) cloud key management methodology was born as a platform-agnostic approach to reducing multi-cloud key management complexity.
