Crypto Visibility for Google Cloud—Know Where Your Keys Are

Data encryption is the last line of defense when cybercriminals penetrate your environment. The strength of this defense, however, depends on how you manage and store your encryption keys, because finding and exploiting encryption keys remains a primary objective for attackers-- this is their path to a pot of ransomware gold.

The fact is that you have encryption everywhere — protecting sensitive data across on-premises infrastructure, public clouds, and SaaS platforms. You are encrypting databases, storage services, container platforms, and virtual machines.

Do you know where all those keys are stored, who has access to them, when were they last rotated? More often than you think, we hear from organizations that they do not have full visibility over their encryption keys, and they cannot easily map, if at all, keys to the data services they protect.

Your security posture and risk exposure remain hidden until it’s too late. What are you doing about it?

Change the Game with Fortanix Key Insight

Without encryption visibility, you are flying blind — unable to assess key usage, enforce policies, or prioritize mitigation efforts. Fortanix Key Insight, part of Fortanix’s Unified Data Security Platform, changes by discovering and mapping encryption keys and services across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

With read-only access permission,Key Insight scans your IT infrastructure and catalogs every existing encryption key and data service, flagging risks such as:

• Keys shared by multiple services
• Keys without expiration or scheduled rotation
• Quantum-vulnerable algorithms
• Unencrypted services

With immediate insight into your biggest vulnerabilities, you can drill down further for more information and devise a remediation path.

Now Supporting Google Cloud Key Discovery

Not so fun fact: according to Cloud Breach Statistic, around one-third of cloud breaches involve stolen cloud API or access keys. Cloud platforms continue to be heavily exploited by cyber criminals—they look for misconfiguration, apply enhanced phishing, and rely on infostealer malware that harvest cloud credentials in an effort to penetrate the environment.

The main goal? Find and obtain encryption keys as this is a proven path to inflict significant damage and guarantee a hefty payout. This is why visibility into cloud keys is of highest importance, so security teams can detect unauthorized access or gaps in key coverage.

In addition to Azure and AWS, Fortanix Key Insight now supports Google Cloud. Security and Cloud teams now can

• Automatically discover cryptographic elements (keys and services)
• Map keys to the Google Cloud resources they protect — giving context to where and how encryption is applied

Key Insight performs read-only scans of Google Cloud metadata — meaning it inventories key references and related context, without ever accessing sensitive information.

With this new support, security teams can eliminate blind spots in their Google Cloud environments and bring Google Cloud encryption into the same governance model they already use for other clouds and on-premises infrastructure.

Drive Crypto Agility for the Age of AI and Quantum Computing

You can go beyond key intelligence and elevate how you manage and store your encryption keys. Pairing Key Insight with Fortanix’s flagship product - Data Security Manager, which gives Security, Compliance, and Cloud teams unified view and centralized management console for all their cryptographic assets across all their environments.

Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) is a next-gen Hardware Security Module (HSM) with a natively integrated Key Management System. With a software-defined architecture, DSM allows you to migrate to the latest NSIT-recommended encryption algorithms to drive crypto agility without operational disruption.

This, in addition to the unified key management across hybrid multi-cloud environments and support for API-driven automation that scales with your business, gives enterprises a solution that can rapidly authenticate and support dynamic AI workloads, while future-proofing data security with quantum ready algorithms.

DSM, built on Confidential Computing that gives Trusted Execution Environment for all your crypto operations, is backed by FIPS 140-2 level 3 certification, and can be deployed on-premises for complete sovereignty or as-a- SaaS.

Unify Data Security, Reduce Risk, Support Compliance and Audits

In an era where data breaches are costly and regulatory compliance is non-negotiable, encryption — and the insight into how it’s applied — must be a first-class citizen in enterprise security strategies.

Sadly, many organizations still live in a key management world that is fragmented between legacy HSMs that are hard to scale and automate, and cloud‑native, vendor‑locked services that weaken sovereignty and fragment governance. With Fortanix Unified Data Security Platform you can change that world—from brittle legacy boxes and siloed cloud offerings to a unified, modern cryptographic fabric that delivers scalable, API‑driven control without sacrificing compliance or visibility.

• Fortanix Key Insight delivers crypto visibility, enabling organizations to discover, assess, and manage cryptographic keys and services across hybrid multicloud environments — now including Google Cloud Platform.
• With unifying management console and enterprise level access controls, Fortanix Data Security Manager allows organizations to securely generate, store, and manage crypto keys, certificates, and secrets.
• With centralized reporting and audit-ready views, security teams can demonstrate compliance with frameworks like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and others. This reduces audit effort and increases confidence in encryption governance.

Curious how this works in your environment? Book a personalized demo to know where your keys live, what risks they represent, and how to bring your entire cryptographic landscape under control.