BYOK / HYOK

Bring Your Own Key lets the customer supply the master key to a provider KMS, the provider stores it. Hold Your Own Key keeps the key in customer infrastructure entirely, the provider asks the customer to decrypt. HYOK is the strongest sovereignty posture.

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BYOK / HYOK

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