Security · 1h ago
Cloud KMS and BYOK: The Trust Gap You're Not Seeing
Cloud KMS and bring-your-own-key (BYOK) options are marketed as giving you control over encryption keys, but the key material still lives inside the provider's infrastructure. BYOK only controls the key's origin, not where it resides or who can invoke it. Legal orders or provider-side credentials can bypass hardware security modules, undermining the promised protection.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly punctures the marketing myth that BYOK equals full control, but it understates that for most compliance-driven use cases, the operational convenience still outweighs the residual trust risk.
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