Data security is a key focus for organizations moving their data warehouses from on-premises to cloud-first systems, such as BigQuery. In addition to storage-level encryption, whether using Google-managed or customer-managed keys, BigQuery also provides column-level encryption. Using BigQuery's SQL AEAD functions, organizations can enforce a more granular level of …

Data governance includes people, processes, and technology. Together, these principles enable organizations to validate and manage across dimensions such as: Data management, including data and pipelines lifecycle management and master data management. Data protection, spanning data access management, data masking and encryption, along with audit and compliance. Data discoverability …