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A data governance team needs to encrypt BigQuery data using an on-premises HSM and Google managed solutions, prompting a discussion on the optimal encryption key management approach.
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You are on the data governance team and are implementing security requirements. You need to encrypt all your data in BigQuery by using an encryption key managed by your team. You must implement a mechanism to generate and store encryption material only on your on-premises hardware security module (HSM). You want to rely on Google managed solutions. What should you do?

  • A. Create the encryption key in the on-premises HSM, and import it into a Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) key. Associate the created Cloud KMS key while creating the BigQuery resources.
  • B. Create the encryption key in the on-premises HSM and link it to a Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM) key. Associate the created Cloud KMS key while creating the BigQuery resources.
  • C. Create the encryption key in the on-premises HSM, and import it into Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud HSM) key. Associate the created Cloud HSM key while creating the BigQuery resources.
  • D. Create the encryption key in the on-premises HSM. Create BigQuery resources and encrypt data while ingesting them into BigQuery.
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