External Key Management for Tableau Extracts Explained #Tableau #DataSecurity #TableauCloud

0:00External key management for extracts.

0:02This is actually interesting.

0:03When you have an external key for extract, what we're really talking about is encryption.

0:09And when you encrypt an extract, essentially making the file secure so that if you were to access the server that the extract was physically stored on,

0:18You could essentially get that extract file and open it in Tableau Desktop natively on the server itself by encrypting it with an external key

0:27What you're basically doing is providing Tableau Cloud with a key that you control, an encryption key that you control, which means if someone gets access directly to the server,

0:36They can't actually access the file because they don't have the external key that's required to open that extract.

0:42So this capability essentially allows you to have that capability to manage the key

0:48separately.

0:48So enhance the security of your data extracts and tablet cloud with external key management.

0:53Integrate directly with your AWS key management service.

0:56So that's known as KMS in the AWS ecosystem.

0:59to gain full control over the encryption keys that protect your data.

1:02So here you would manage the keys in AWS.

1:06And so if you cycle the keys or change the keys, they would also sync up with your Tableau Cloud and your extracts would probably have to be taken again.

1:12because they'd need to use the key.

1:13So external key management extracts is generally available in Tableau Cloud