HashiCorp Vault integrates with Google Cloud to provide a secure solution for managing dynamic credentials and enforcing access controls for AI services like Vertex AI and AutoML. This approach eliminates the reliance on static, long-lived credentials, which are more vulnerable to security breaches. By leveraging the Google Cloud Vault secrets engine, organizations can generate short-lived, temporary credentials that automatically expire, significantly reducing the risk of credential misuse. This dynamic approach ensures that AI services can authenticate securely and access only the resources they are authorized to use, while also simplifying compliance and access management across AI workloads. Additionally, Vault's integration with Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and Confidential Computing on GCP provides advanced security controls for protecting data at rest, in transit, and during processing, ensuring that even if data is unintentionally exposed, decryption is gated by Vault, providing a critical layer of control and security.