Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

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 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 ...