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Submitted by sofia.br· Mar 30, 2026

Question

You are deploying a highly confidential data processing workload on Google Cloud. Your company's compliance framework mandates that cryptographic keys used for encrypting data at rest must be generated and stored exclusively within a validated Hardware Security Module (HSM). You want to use a fully integrated Google Cloud managed service to handle the lifecycle and usage of these keys. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys (CSEK) by providing your on-premises generated key
  • BImport your on-premises HSM key material into a Cloud KMS key with the SOFTWARE protection
  • CCreate a new key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) with the HSM protection level.
  • DConfigure Cloud External Key Manager (Cloud EKM) to connect to your on-premises HSM.

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