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 if it doesn't hold the relevant key to migrate 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...