Encryption
Encryption is a basic form of security for sensitive data. In its simplest form, encryption is the process of turning plaintext data into a scrambled string of characters. We cannot read those strings and, more importantly, a system cannot read them if it doesn't hold the relevant key to decrypt it back to plaintext format.
Encryption is a key element of GCP security. By default, GCP offers encryption at rest, which means that data stored on GCP's storage services is encrypted without any further action from users. This means that there is no additional configuration needed and even if this data did somehow get into the wrong hands, then the data would be unreadable as they wouldn't have the proper encryption key to make sense of the data.
The ability to encrypt sensitive data over GCP assures customers that confidential data will stay just there. At the core of this protection is GCP KMS, which Google uses to manage cryptographic keys for your cloud...