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Baji Shaik and Avinash VallarapuBeginning PostgreSQL on the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3447-1_10

10. Encryption on the Cloud

Baji Shaik1  and Avinash Vallarapu1
(1)
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
 

This chapter explains encryption and how it helps you secure your data. We cover encryption at rest and in motion. Each cloud vendor provides default encryption for virtual machines at the disk level and for PostgreSQL at the disk level and in motion. The chapter also covers how to manage your encryption keys.

A database system is considered a store for application data. An application may refer to a website that has static data that almost never changes. Or an application may refer to a critical transactional ...

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