Security of Google Cloud

Security is central to what we do.

To provide a clear and detailed understanding of our processes and approach, we have compiled documentation and resources about how we safeguard our customers' data and secure our platform and infrastructure.

Essential security documentation

From encryption at rest to data deletion, read more about the techniques and systems we use to create our trusted platform.

Encryption at rest
An overview of how we encrypt customer data at rest, without any action required by you.
Encryption in transit
An overview of how we encrypt customer data in transit, without any action required by you.
Security overview
A starting point for customers to understand how we handle data center security, monitoring, controls and more.

Data incident response process
Our approach to managing and responding to data incidents.
Data deletion
Understand what happens when you delete Customer Data from our platform.
Privileged access in Google Cloud
Read how you can control the access that Google personnel have to your customer data

Security monitoring
Our approach to security monitoring
Credential Security
Learn more about our strengthened default security settings

Infrastructure and data center design

We build layered security throughout the infrastructure stack to create defense-in-depth.

Infrastructure Security Design
How we design and integrate security into our technical infrastructure.
Protecting the physical-to-logical space in a data center
How we implement layers of physical controls and logical controls to limit physical access to data centers.
BeyondProd: cloud-native architecture
An overview of the services and controls in our infrastructure that work together to help protect workloads.

Enforcing boot integrity on production machines
Our controls at each step in the boot process on production machines.
Remote attestation of disaggregated machines
Google Cloud’s approach to data center machine attestation.

Security of Google Cloud

Essential security documentation

Infrastructure and data center design

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