Cloud provider access management documentation

Cloud provider access management products, namely Access Transparency, Access Approval, and Key Access Justifications, aim to provide you progressively greater transparency and control over access to your content stored in Google Cloud.

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Access Transparency

Access Approval

Key Access Justifications

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Trusting your data with Google Cloud

Security and data protection are at the core of how Google Cloud designs and builds its products. This whitepaper provides details about how Google Cloud protects customer data throughout its lifecycle and how it provides customers transparency and control over their data.

Managing data lifecycle User trust

Privileged access management in Google Cloud

This whitepaper provides information about Google's privileged access philosophy.

Privileged access

Overview of administrative access controls

This topic provides an overview of the core underlying principles based on which Google Cloud's administrative access controls are designed.

Administrative access controls

Government requests for Cloud customer data

This whitepaper describes Google's practices around government requests for customer content.

Government requests