The meteoric rise of the public cloud has compounded the need for proper data encryption. However, data security requires new knowledge and skill sets that are in short supply, often leading to misconfigured and insecure solutions. As a result, data breaches are occurring more often than ever before.

What's the solution? Every piece of data in your possession should be encrypted to protect confidentiality in the event of a security breach. And in order to fully understand data encryption, you’ll first need to learn the basics of encryption, the prerequisites of data confidentiality, key management, and how data encryption works in each of the top tier public clouds.

In this guide, you’ll learn about: