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 Umesh

Umesh 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.

Cool things of the week

• Google Cloud Endpoints announcement
• How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog post

Interview

• Google Cloud Platform Security homepage
• Google Security Whitepaper whitepaper
• Encryption at Rest in Google Cloud Platform whitepaper
• 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

Question of the week

• Web serving on Google Cloud Platform: an overview blog post
• Web Serving Overview solution