Google Cloud Platform Podcast Encryption with Umesh Shankar
Umesh Shankar has been working on making Google secure for many years and he’s come to tell you and your cohosts Francesc and Mark how encryption helps keep Google Cloud Platform users safe.
About UmeshUmesh Shankar is a Principal Engineer based in New York, focusing on security and privacy. He created and continues to lead the Data Protection effort at Google, working to keep users’ data safe in Google apps and on Google Cloud Platform. He routinely works with teams across the company on security and privacy design, and is actively involved in trying to improve security on the web.
Umesh has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.
He is an avid soccer player, clarinetist, and mixologist.
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- Google Cloud Platform Security homepage
- Google Security Whitepaper whitepaper
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- Google Cloud Storage User Provided Keys docs
- Encrypting Disks with Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys docs
- Homomorphic Encryption wikipedia
- Homomorphic Encryption with BigQuery docs
- Cloud Data Protection for the Masses research paper