Enable Customer Managed Keys for your Organization on Microsoft Azure

Enable Customer Managed Keys for your Organization on Microsoft Azure

Overview

Overview

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
protects your organization's sensitive data in the cloud using organization-specific encryption keys that are generated and stored in the
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
key management service (KMS). To prevent malicious access, the keys are encrypted using a master key that is stored in the cloud provider's KMS.
If you prefer, you can create a customer managed key (CMK). When you create a CMK, you control access to it. However, you'll need to grant
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
access to the CMK so that it can encrypt and decrypt your organization's sensitive data.
Creating a CMK offers the following benefits:
  • You can restrict and control any access to your data.
  • You can restrict the decryption of your data in the event of a data breach.
  • You create and hold the key material in your KMS. The key is never exposed to your cloud service provider.
  • You maintain full control of the key throughout its lifecycle. You can revoke access or delete the key at any time.
The following image shows how
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
interfaces with your CMK:
  1. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
    interfaces with the
    Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
    KMS agnostically.
  2. Non-customer managed keys go to Informatica's cloud KMS.
When you create a CMK, your KMS and
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
POD must use the same cloud provider. For example, if your
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
POD is a Microsoft Azure POD, then you must store your CMK in Azure Key Vault. You can't store it in AWS KMS or Google Cloud KMS.
After you create and enable a CMK, you can revoke it at any time by disabling customer managed keys in
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
Administrator
. If you do this, you'll go back to using Informatica's master key.

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