Security Command Center release notes

AI Protection supports data residency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for all Security Command Center service tiers.

For more information, see Planning for data residency.

The integration of Security Command Center with Application Design Center for application lifecycle security assessments is generally available (GA). Design-time findings are sent to Security Command Center on demand during deployment. This feature lets you filter findings by App Hub application at the app-enabled folder and project levels.

For more information, see Application lifecycle security assessments.

Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud is available in General Availability.

Security Command Center released new Malicious Skill runtime threat detectors for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and Agent Platform. These detectors identify when a malicious skill (an AI agent capability) is executed or loaded. A malicious skill is any malicious binary that has been tagged as an LLM skill by Google's threat intelligence.

For more information, see the following:

• Container Threat Detection overview
• Cloud Run Threat Detection overview
• Agent Platform overview

The Assured Open Source Software Premium tier supports JavaScript (NPM) packages for Node.js environments.

For more information, see Download NPM packages using direct repository access and List of supported NPM packages for the Assured Open Source Software premium tier.

For the Security Command Center Standard tier, AI Protection is supported for both projects and organizations.

Project-level activations for the Standard tier include access to the AI security dashboard, basic inventory view (excluding Gemini models), and baseline security findings.

Some features of AI Protection are only available for the Premium and Enterprise tiers or for organization-level activations. For more information, see Configure AI Protection.

Organizations that are enrolled in the data residency Preview program can update their organization's data residency and data encryption configuration. For more information, see Modify data residency or data encryption configuration.

Agent Platform Vulnerability Assessment (Preview) scans for plaintext secrets, such as credentials, access tokens, and API keys, in customer-deployed Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform containers. For more information, see Agent Platform Vulnerability Assessment.

Version 1.2.0 of the Google SCC ITSM app and version 1.3.0 of the Google SCC SIR app have been released.

To reflect this update, the ServiceNow integration guide is updated with the following changes:

• Added support for ServiceNow Yokohama, Zurich, and Australia versions.

• Added the following features:

  • Mute and unmute findings
  • Create mute rules
  • Create Configuration Item (CI) lookup rules
  • View the action log

• Updated setup instructions for Java KeyStore certificates.

• Added additional troubleshooting steps for maximum execution time exceeded errors, data collection issues, and ECC Queue timeout errors.

For more information, see Sending Security Command Center data to ServiceNow.

For the Security Command Center Premium tier, you can enable AI Protection at the project level.

Project-level activations include access to the AI security dashboard, AI threat detection, and AI vulnerability and misconfiguration findings.

Some features of AI Protection are only available for organization-level activations. For more information, see Configure AI Protection.

For the Security Command Center Premium tier, you can enable AI Protection at the project level.

Project-level activations include access to the AI security dashboard, AI threat detection, and AI vulnerability and misconfiguration findings.

For more information, see Configure AI Protection.

Key insights from Security Command Center are available on the Security & compliance page in Cloud Hub. This feature is available in General Availability.

You can integrate Security Command Center with Jira to review findings in your Jira project. For more information, see Integrate Jira with Security Command Center.

You can modify the data residency and data encryption configuration on the Premium and Standard tiers after you activate Security Command Center for your organization. For more information, see Modify data residency or data encryption configuration.

The Assured Open Source Software premium tier includes an updated list of curated binaries for the Go, Java, and Python languages.

For more information, see List of supported Java and Python packages for the Assured OSS premium tier and List of supported Go packages for the Assured OSS premium tier.

Security Command Center External Exposure is available in Preview for the Security Command Center Premium tier. The service helps you manage and reduce your external attack surface through automated asset discovery, Google Cloud network exposure path validation, and active exploitability testing.

For more information, see Detect exposed resources.

AI Protection supports data residency in the European Union (EU) for the Security Command Center Premium tier.

For more information, see Planning for data residency.

The following Security Command Center finding category names from AI Protection have new names that clarify that AI Protection detects Gemini foundation models:

• VERTEX_AI_MODEL_DETECTED changes to GEMINI_MODEL_DETECTED.
• VERTEX_AI_MODEL_NOT_PROTECTED_BY_MODEL_ARMOR changes to GEMINI_MODEL_NOT_PROTECTED_BY_MODEL_ARMOR.

For more information about AI Protection findings, see AI Protection overview.

Risk Engine detects toxic combinations that are related to Managed Service for Apache Spark (formerly known as Dataproc), including Lightning Engine.

Risk reports are updated to include more content in the Risk Engine introduction and the System attack exposure pages. For more information about what's included in risk reports, see Risk reports overview.

The following Compliance Manager frameworks were updated:

• CIS Critical Security Controls v8 (version 8.0)
• CIS GCP Foundations Benchmark v3.0 (version 7.0)
• CSA Cloud Controls Matrix v4.0.11 (version 7.0)
• ISO 27001:2022 (version 9.0)
• NIST 800-53 Revision 5 (version 9.0)
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.1 (version 8.0)
• PCI DSS v4.0.1 (version 6.0)
• Qatar National Information Assurance Standard v2.1 (version 6.0)
• SOC 2017 (version 7.0)

The Security Command Center Enterprise service tier is deprecated. It will be shut down on May 21, 2027. By default, your organization will automatically move to the Premium service tier on that date.

Artifact guard is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Enterprise and Premium tiers. Artifact guard is a service that helps you prevent the deployment of vulnerable packages throughout the software development lifecycle.

Risk Engine detects toxic combinations that are related to Cloud Build resources.

Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud supports scanning XFS and NTFS disk partition types.

Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud supports scanning GKE clusters that have Image streaming enabled.

Compliance Manager can be enabled for a single project. For more information, see Enable Compliance Manager.

New Standard tier activations at the organization level support the enhanced Standard tier features. New Standard tier activations at the project level continue to support Standard-legacy tier features. For more information, see Standard tier enhanced and automatically activated for some customers.

When Security Command Center is activated at the project level only, you can enable Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud on the single project.

Security Command Center has new predefined rules and controls:

• Additional predefined security graph rules to support Agent Runtime

• Additional support in existing correlated threats rules for Agent Runtime

• Additional runtime detectors in Agent Platform Threat Detection

• Additional Event Threat Detection rules to support AI agents

Security Command Center findings that are related to AI security risks are available in the Security tab of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The feature helps provide comprehensive visibility into findings, active threats, and attack path simulations. This feature requires Security Command Center Premium or Enterprise.

For more information, see View security findings.

Through the Application Design Center, Security Command Center helps you perform proactive security assessments (Preview) throughout your application development lifecycle. This integration shows both design-time and runtime findings in Security Command Center. For more information, see Application lifecycle security assessments.

Data Security Posture Management has new controls in Preview. The controls help you secure Cloud Storage objects and include the following:

• Govern the minimum retention period for Cloud Storage objects
• Require Customer-Managed Encryption for Cloud Storage objects
• Restrict Public Access to Cloud Storage objects

For more information, see Advanced data governance and security cloud controls.

AI Protection supports agentic workloads in Preview, including Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. This update includes the following:

• Agent Platform Vulnerability Assessment: Identifies software vulnerabilities (CVEs) in agentic workloads that are deployed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Findings are surfaced for vulnerabilities of HIGH or CRITICAL severity that are detected in your custom dependencies.
• Expanded detection and controls: Includes new threat detection findings and recommended security controls for AI agents and MCP servers.
• Enhanced inventory and filtering: Provides an updated AI security dashboard view and new filtering options for agentic resources in the console.

When you activate Security Command Center Standard or Premium tier for a project, several services are automatically enabled and service-specific service agents are provisioned with the required IAM roles and permissions.

For more information, see Activate for a project when Security Command Center is not active in the organization.

Cloud Run Threat Detection monitors Cloud Run worker pools. For a list of resources that Cloud Run Threat Detection monitors, see Supported resources.

Key insights from Security Command Center are available on the Security & compliance page in Cloud Hub. This feature is available in Preview.

Security Command Center Risk Engine supports Managed Service for Apache Spark resources in attack paths and Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters and jobs in high-value resource sets.

Risk Engine supports aiplatform.googleapis.com/ReasoningEngine in both attack paths and high value resource sets.

Risk Engine has launched enhanced heuristics to help identify default high-value resources.

If you are using the default high-value resource set, you might observe changes in the exposure scores of their findings, resources, and issues. For information about these changes, see Default high-value resource set.

The following Compliance Manager frameworks were updated:

• CIS GKE 1.7 (version 3.0)
• CIS Critical Security Controls v8 (version 6.0)
• CSA Cloud Controls Matrix v4.0.11 (version 5.0)
• ISO 27001:2022 (version 7.0)
• Qutar National Information Assurance Standard v2.1 (version 4.0)
• NIST 800-53 Revision 5 (version 7.0)
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.1 (version 6.0)
• PCI DSS v4.0.1 (version 4.0)
• Security Essentials (version 12.0)
• SOC 2017 (version 5.0)

The names of Event Threat Detection rules pertaining to AI control plane have changed.

The Cloud Run Threat Detection rule Privilege Escalation: Fileless Execution in /dev/shm has been shut down.

In March 2026, Risk Engine will launch enhanced heuristics to more accurately identify default high-value resources.

No action is required. As a result of this enhancement, customers using the default high-value resource set may observe changes in the exposure scores of their findings, resources, and issues. Customers using custom resource value configurations are not affected.

AI Protection is generally available (GA) in the Security Command Center Premium tier at the organization level.

For regional availability, see Locations for AI Protection.

Security Command Center lets you filter findings, issues, and compliance information to view only the resources that are registered to an App Hub application. For information, see Integration with App Hub.

The Security Command Center Standard tier, available at no charge, has a new set of capabilities and is activated automatically for some organizations. For information about these changes, see Standard tier enhanced and automatically activated for some customers.

The prompt injection and jailbreak detection filter for the Mumbai (asia-south1) and Singapore (asia-southeast1) regions is upgraded to improve detection accuracy and reduce the rate of false positives.

The following Container Threat Detection detectors have been released to General Availability:

• Command and Control: Piped Encoded Code Execution Detected
• Command and Control: Piped Encoded Download

You can configure Model Armor floor settings for Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to define baseline safety and security filters. This feature is in Preview.

You can also configure Cloud Logging for sanitization operations. The Model Armor floor settings perform these operations on traffic to and from Google-managed MCP servers and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform models.

Multiple pages in Security Command Center Standard have been improved:

• The Risk overview page is enhanced to provide separate views for misconfiguration, vulnerabilities and identity-related findings.
• The Findings page includes predefined filter views for vulnerabilities and identity findings.
• The left navigation has been updated.

AI Protection is generally available (GA) in the Security Command Center Enterprise tier and is available as a Preview in the Security Command Center Premium tier.

Security Command Center Risk Engine supports Cloud Build Attack Paths with Cloud Build Resources supported in the high-value resource set.

You can configure Model Armor to enhance the security of your agentic AI applications that interact with Google Cloud Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. This feature is in Preview. For configuration details, see Model Armor integration with Google Cloud MCP servers.

Security Command Center Risk Engine uses the storage.restrictAuthTypes organization policy constraint to determine whether Cloud Storage buckets are reachable using signed URLs.

The monitoring dashboard is available in General Availability.

Model Armor integration with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is available in General Availability.

The following updates simplify Security Command Center Standard and Premium tier activation for organizations:

• You need fewer Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to activate Security Command Center.
• A variety of services are automatically enabled during activation. Service-specific service agents are automatically enabled with the IAM roles and permissions that are required for these services to function.

See the following for detailed information about activating a specific tier:

• Activate Security Command Center Standard tier for an organization
• Activate Security Command Center Premium tier for an organization

The following AI Protection features are available:

• AI Security dashboard: The dashboard has an updated AI Inventory section, which includes an overview of AI agents.
• Assets page: You can filter for AI resources, including AI agents that are deployed to Agent Runtime.

AI Protection is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

Agent Engine Threat Detection, a built-in service of Security Command Center, is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Enterprise and Premium tiers. This service helps you detect and investigate potential attacks on AI agents that are deployed to Agent Runtime Runtime.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) supports the Security Command Center Premium tier at the organization level.

Several features and updates have been made available to Security Command Center in a federated identity environment:

• Exporting findings to a CSV file.
• Exporting findings to Cloud Storage.

The following features aren't supported by identity federation but are being moved to other sections in the documentation:

• Sending feedback in Security Command Center
• Managing Google SecOps settings.

Model Armor is available in the following regions:

• europe-west1 (Belgium)
• europe-west2 (London)
• europe-west3 (Frankfurt)
• asia-south1 (Mumbai)

For more information, see Locations for the Model Armor API.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) has been released to General Availability for the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

You can use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) organization policies with Security Command Center. For more information, see Use CMEK organization policies with Security Command Center.

The monitoring and auditing capabilities for Compliance Manager have been released to General Availability.

Security Command Center Risk Engine supports Cloud Run attack paths for the following high-value resources:

• run.googleapis.com/Job
• run.googleapis.com/Service

Compliance Manager supports the Security Command Center Premium tier at the organization level.

In addition to the Enterprise service tier, Issues are available on the Security Command Center Premium service tier at the organization level. This update includes capabilities such as Toxic Combinations, Chokepoints, and Graph Search (Preview). The console navigation has been updated to reflect an Issues page for Premium tier users.

The release note for Security Command Center and attack path simulations, published on October 16, 2025, was updated to clarify that attack path simulations use Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine OS and software vulnerability findings to detect toxic combinations and chokepoints.

Container image vulnerability findings has been released to General Availability.

Customers with an organization-level activation of Security Command Center Premium have an organization-level discovery subscription at no charge from Sensitive Data Protection. For more information, see Sensitive data discovery in Security Command Center Premium.

Security Command Center and attack path simulations use Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine operating system and software vulnerabilities to detect toxic combinations and chokepoints.

UPDATE: Attack path simulations analyze OS and software vulnerability findings for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine resources to detect toxic combinations and chokepoints.

The following features in Compliance Manager are available in General Availability:

• Applying and updating built-in frameworks and cloud controls
• Creating, applying, and editing custom frameworks and cloud controls
• Support for VPC Service Control perimeters
• Audit logging
• Client libraries
• REST APIs

Correlated Threats is available in Preview. This feature combines related threat findings together by using the security graph, helping you to prioritize and respond to active threats.

Data Security Posture Management (available in Preview) lets you deploy frameworks with advanced data security cloud controls to app-enabled folders. For more information, see Deploy advanced data security cloud controls.

Google Cloud console pages for all Security Command Center tiers have been enhanced.

• The following changes were made to all service tiers—Standard, Premium, and Enterprise:

  • You can refresh findings in the Finding query results panel.
  • The JSON tab on the detail pane of the Findings page displays the raw findings JSON object, making it compatible with APIs.
  • Autocompletion of a query in the Findings page query editor is improved.
  • The Findings > Quick filters panel shows default values if there is an error fetching results.
  • The Findings > Quick filters panel shows separate State and Mute filter sections.

• The following changes were made to the Enterprise service tier:

  • Added support for the Vulnerabilities page.
  • Added support for security marks.
  • Added support for the Threats dashboard on the Risk overview page.
  • The finding detail panel on the Issues page is updated. Open the panel using the View details button when viewing a toxic combination issue type.
  • Additional query operators and query functions are available.
  • The opt-out banner is no longer available.

Model Armor limits the maximum input size for files and text to 4 MB, automatically skipping any content that exceeds this threshold.

The upgraded model for the prompt injection and jailbreak detection filter is available in EU multi-region. This model has improved detection rates across several attack vectors, including the following:

• Do Anything Now prompts
• System instruction manipulation
• Unauthorized action execution
• Sensitive information retrieval

Bulk export findings to BigQuery is available in General Availability. Bulk exports are supported for organizations, projects, and folders.

Graph search lets you explore the security graph using custom queries. This product is available in Preview in the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

Model Armor is integrated with Google Agentspace to provide greater insights and enhanced security of your agent interactions by default. For more information, see Integration with Google Agentspace.

The Findings page in Security Command Center has been improved.

• With Security Command Center Premium and Enterprise, the page includes the following predefined filter views that return a specific category of findings.

  • Premium service tier: All Findings, Vulnerabilities, Identity, and Threats.
  • Enterprise service tier: All Findings, Vulnerabilities, Identity, Data, and Code.

• With Security Command Center Enterprise, the page includes a selector to filter by cloud provider: Google Cloud, Amazon Web Service (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.

For more information, see Review and manage findings.

Model Armor integration with Google Kubernetes Engine is available in General Availability.

Security Command Center has improved the automatic selection of resources when running attack path simulations using the default high-value resource set.

Risk Engine uses heuristics to identify resources used for non-production purposes. To help ensure that you have information about the most important assets, Risk Engine calculates the attack exposure score for all other resources in the default high-value resource set before calculating the attack exposure score for these non-production resources.

To customize the high-value resource set, see Define and manage your high-value resource set. For information about Risk Engine, see Attack exposure scores and attack paths.

Security Command Center changed how Google Cloud subnets are handled when running attack path simulations. The result is that attack paths are more accurate in relation to networking. Certain customers with specific Google Cloud subnet configurations, for example, when a VPC connector accesses a subnetwork, may see significant changes to toxic combinations, chokepoints, and attack exposure scores.

Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) now supports Go packages. For more information, see Download Go packages using direct repository access.

Cloud Run Threat Detection is available in General Availability.

The Model Armor monitoring dashboard provides a centralized view to track interactions and violations within your projects. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see View the monitoring dashboard.

Multiple pages in Security Command Center Premium have been improved:

• The Risk overview page is enhanced to provide a view of threats, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations.
• The Findings page includes predefined filter views for vulnerabilities and identity findings.
• Information previously on the Threats page is available in the Threats dashboard on the Risk overview page.
• Information previously on the Vulnerabilities page is now available on the Vulnerabilities dashboard on the Risk overview page.

Vulnerability assessment for Google Cloud supports scanning disks configured with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for projects that are outside of VPC Service Controls perimeters. For more information about how to scan disks configured with CMEK, see Run Vulnerability Scans for CMEK disks.

Compliance Manager (available in Preview) now lets you remove resources from deployed frameworks.

Issues, chokepoints (for Google Cloud), and predefined security graph rules have been released to General Availability.

AI Protection helps you manage the security posture of your AI workloads by detecting threats and helping you to mitigate risks to your AI asset inventory. This product is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

You can use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEKs) to protect data at rest in Security Command Center. This feature is available in General Availability. For more information, see Enable CMEK for Security Command Center.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) lets you define, deploy, monitor, and audit data security postures for your Google Cloud environment. This product is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

The following Container Threat Detection detectors have been released to General Availability:

• Execution: Possible Arbitrary Command Execution through CUPS (CVE-2024-47177)
• Execution: Socat Reverse Shell Detected
• Privilege Escalation: Abuse of Sudo For Privilege Escalation (CVE-2019-14287)
• Privilege Escalation: Polkit Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034)
• Privilege Escalation: Sudo Potential Privilege Escalation (CVE-2021-3156)

Risk reports generated and downloaded from Security Command Center include a system attack exposure page that shows the organization's exposure risk over time and lists the projects and resources that have the highest risk.

Model Armor supports the asia-southeast1 location. For information about supported locations, see Locations for the Model Armor API.

Compliance Manager helps ensure that your Google Cloud infrastructure, workloads, and data meet the security and regulatory requirements of your organization. This product is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

Model Armor and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform integration

Model Armor integrates with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, providing a default security configuration for all new prediction endpoints. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Integration with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

You can send a bulk export of Security Command Center findings to a BigQuery dataset. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Bulk export findings to BigQuery.

You can use Terraform to manage Model Armor floor settings and templates. This helps reduce manual overhead with Model Armor deployments. For more information, see Terraform resources for Security Command Center.

Model Armor filter updates

• The prompt injection and jailbreak detection filter now supports 10,000 tokens.
• For the Sensitive Data Protection filter, SKIP_DETECTION is returned if the prompt or response exceeds the token limit.
• For all other filters, if the prompt or response exceeds the token limit, MATCH_FOUND is returned if malicious content is found, and SKIP_DETECTION is returned if no malicious content is found.

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) has launched support for log ingestion from Microsoft Azure management groups. This capability lets users set up log ingestion and then consume findings at an Azure management group level, rather than at the subscription level. For more information, see Configure Microsoft Azure log ingestion for management groups. This capability is available in Preview.

A new risk scoring algorithm is launched. As a result, you might see slight changes in attack exposure scores for resources and findings. The new algorithm better reflects attacker behavior and gives a fairer representation of the relative risk level of your organization. We will monitor the results of this change and might perform further adjustments, if necessary.

For the Enterprise service tier, Security Command Center offers data residency support in the European Union, Saudi Arabia, and United States. This feature is in General Availability.

The Setup guide in Security Command Center Enterprise, used to monitor the activation progress and configure services, is now in General Availability.

The Impair Defenses: Two Step Verification Disabled finding type of Event Threat Detection was renamed to Persistence: Two Step Verification Disabled. For a complete list of Event Threat Detection finding types, see Event Threat Detection overview.

The Aggregations panel on the Findings page in Security Command Center Enterprise has been enhanced and is now called Quick Filters. For information about filtering results on the Findings page, see Review and manage findings.

The following Container Threat Detection detectors for file monitoring are in Preview:

• Collection: Pam.d Modification
• Credential Access: Access Sensitive Files on Nodes
• Defense Evasion: Disable or modify Linux audit system
• Defense Evasion: Root Certificate Installed
• Execution: Suspicious Cron Modification
• Persistence: Modify ld.so.preload

The following Security Command Center Enterprise pages in the Google Cloud console now fully replace equivalent pages that you accessed previously in the Google Security Operations console.

• Risk Overview
• Issues
• Assets (previously called Resources)
• Findings

Left navigation links in the Google SecOps console open the related Google Cloud console page. See the earlier release announcement about these pages.

In the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security posture dashboard, the software vulnerabilities pane is available in Preview, not General Availability.

Notebook Security Scanner is a built-in package vulnerability detection service of Security Command Center. This feature is available in Preview to the Security Command Center Premium or Enterprise tier.

You can enable and use Notebook Security Scanner to detect vulnerabilities in Python packages that are used in Colab Enterprise notebooks (files with the ipynb filename extension) and resolve those package vulnerability findings.

In the Google Cloud console, the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security posture dashboard shows the top software vulnerabilities that affect your GKE workloads. This feature is in General Availability.

Security Command Center now supports the detection of Chokepoints for the following cloud service provider platforms:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure

Support for Chokepoints with Microsoft Azure and AWS is in Preview.

You can download risk reports as PDFs. Risk reports help you understand the results of the attack path simulations (virtual red teaming) that Security Command Center runs. This feature is in Preview and is available for customers on the Enterprise or Premium service tiers. For more information, see Risk reports overview.

The following Virtual Machine Threat Detection detectors are in General Availability.

• Defense Evasion: Unexpected ftrace handler
• Defense Evasion: Unexpected interrupt handler
• Defense Evasion: Unexpected kernel modules
• Defense Evasion: Unexpected kernel read-only data modification
• Defense Evasion: Unexpected kprobe handler
• Defense Evasion: Unexpected processes in runqueue
• Defense Evasion: Unexpected system call handler

The Defense Evasion: Unexpected kernel code modification detector of Virtual Machine Threat Detection is shut down. For more information, see Detector shutdowns.

The following Event Threat Detection detectors have been released to GA.

• Exfiltration: Cloud SQL Data Exfiltration
• Credential Access: CloudDB Failed login from Anonymizing Proxy IP
• Initial Access: CloudDB Successful login from Anonymizing Proxy IP

The display name for the following Event Threat Detection rules have changed. Please update any artifacts that use these values, such as finding filters, finding queries, or mute rules.

Risk Engine includes the aiplatform.googleapis.com/Model resource type in the default high-value resource set. For more information, see the list of default resource types.

CVEs with no known exploitation activity are not considered in attack path simulations

Vulnerability findings in Security Command Center are enriched by Mandiant Threat Intelligence. A CVE with wide exploitation activity is more likely to be used in an attack path compared to a CVE with only anticipated exploitation activity. Vulnerabilities with no known exploitation activity are not considered in attack path simulations. For more information, see Incorporation of CVE data.

The prompt injection and jailbreak detection filter in Model Armor flags more threats across various attack vectors, and offers an improved detection rate for high-confidence malicious prompts. This filter is available in us-east1.

The Set security marks option in the new Security Command Center Enterprise Findings and Assets pages is temporarily unavailable. You can opt-out of the new Security Command Center Enterprise experience to manage security marks using the Cloud console. Or, you can manage security marks using the Security Command Center API.

The following Event Threat Detection detectors for Vertex AI have been released to Preview:

• Persistence: New Geography for AI Service
• Privilege Escalation: Anomalous Multistep Service Account Delegation for AI Admin Activity
• Privilege Escalation: Anomalous Multistep Service Account Delegation for AI Data Access
• Privilege Escalation: Anomalous Service Account Impersonator for AI Admin Activity
• Privilege Escalation: Anomalous Service Account Impersonator for AI Data Access
• Privilege Escalation: Anomalous Impersonation of Service Account for AI Admin Activity
• Persistence: New AI API Method
• Initial Access: Dormant Service Account Activity in AI Service

Multi-language support for Model Armor filters

The Responsible AI and prompt injection and jailbreak detection filters are tested in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean. These filters can work in other languages, but the quality of results might vary.

For more information, see Languages supported.

Model Armor supports screening text in the following document types for malicious content.

• DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM documents
• PPTX, PPTM, POTX, POT presentations
• XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, XLTM spreadsheets

The Security Risk Overview dashboard for Compute Engine is in General Availability. In addition, it provides a Top CVE findings table that lists the most severe CVEs that affect your Compute Engine instances.

Muted findings are no longer considered in the Security Command Center Risk Engine. As a result, they no longer get attack exposure scores.

Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud supports scanning on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) nodes and containers. This feature has been released to Preview.

Security Command Center Premium customers can now access toxic combinations, which are in General Availability, and chokepoints, which are in Preview. These are available at the organization level. For more information, see Toxic combinations and chokepoints overview.

The following Container Threat Detection detectors for Google Kubernetes Engine have been released to General Availability:

• Credential Access: Find Google Cloud Credentials
• Credential Access: GPG Key Reconnaissance
• Defense Evasion: Base64 ELF File Command Line
• Defense Evasion: Base64 Encoded Python Script Executed
• Defense Evasion: Base64 Encoded Shell Script Executed
• Execution: Fileless Execution in /memfd:
• Execution: Suspicious OpenSSL Shared Object Loaded
• Privilege Escalation: Fileless Execution in /dev/shm

Domain tagging for toxic combinations and chokepoints has been improved to be more precise. The following filters are available for issues:

• CVE Vulnerabilities
• Identity
• Data
• AI Security

Model Armor enhancements

• Model Armor supports multi-regional endpoints. For more information, see Locations for the Model Armor API.
• All Model Armor filters support up to 2,000 tokens.

Enhanced data residency support in the European Union and United States is in General Availability.

Starting May 26, 2025, the findings retention period for new activations of Security Command Center will change from 13 months to 90 days.

The retention period for findings for existing customers prior to May 26, 2025, remains unchanged.

For more information on retention periods, see Data retention.

The Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security posture dashboard shows the top threats, but not the top software vulnerabilities, detected by Security Command Center.

In the Google Cloud console, the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security posture dashboard shows the top threats and software vulnerabilities that affect your GKE workloads. This feature is in General Availability.

The GA release of enhanced data residency support in the European Union and United States is temporarily delayed.

When you enable Security Command Center for the first time in an organization, and you enable data residency in the European Union or United States, data residency controls are enforced at rest, in use, and in transit. This feature is in General Availability.

For details, see Planning for data residency and Security Command Center regional endpoints.

Risk Engine supports the Artifact Registry service. This support lets Risk Engine consider images that are hosted in Artifact Registry when calculating attack paths. For more information, see Resources that receive attack exposure scores.

To support this change, Risk Engine includes the artifactregistry.googleapis.com/Repository resource type in the default high-value resource set. For more information, see the list of default resource types.

A Security Risk Overview dashboard for Compute Engine is available in the Google Cloud console. The dashboard, available in Preview, shows the top Security Command Center findings that affect your Compute Engine resources.

Security Command Center Enterprise uses predefined security graph rules to identify issues. This feature is in Preview.

For more information, see Predefined security graph rules.

The following Security Command Center Enterprise pages that you previously accessed through the Google Security Operations console are now under Security Command Center in the Google Cloud console:

• Risk Overview
• Issues
• Assets (previously called resources)
• Findings

The Security Command Center Enterprise left navigation also includes links to pages in the Google Security Operations console. For information about this navigation and accessing Google Security Operations pages, see Security Command Center Enterprise console.

Web Security Scanner, a built-in service of Security Command Center, released new detectors. The following detectors, which are available with the Enterprise and Premium tiers of Security Command Center, detect misconfigurations in web applications:

• HSTS_MISCONFIGURATION
• CSP_MISSING
• CSP_MISCONFIGURATION
• COOP_MISSING
• CLICKJACKING_PROTECTION_MISSING

For more information, see Web Security Scanner misconfiguration findings.

Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud has been released to Preview. This feature helps to discover critical and high severity software vulnerabilities in your Compute Engine VM instances without installing agents.

Vulnerability Assessment for Google Cloud is on by default. Customers might see an increase in findings due to vulnerabilities in existing virtual machines that weren't previously detected.

Security Command Center provides increased support for Microsoft Azure data.

• Security Command Center can collect Microsoft Azure resource and configuration data.
• Risk Engine can discover toxic combinations, attack paths, and issues in your Microsoft Azure environment.
• The Sensitive Data Protection discovery service can profile your Azure Blob Storage data and identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that can expose sensitive data.
• Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) can analyze and generate misconfiguration findings for Azure role-assignments that grant principals excessive privileges beyond what they use. This capability is available in Preview.

Toxic Combinations for Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been released to General Availability.

The Execution: Ingress Nightmare Vulnerability Execution detector of Container Threat Detection is in Preview.

The ability of Event Threat Detection to analyze foundational log sources is generally available (GA).

The discovery findings that Sensitive Data Protection generates in Security Command Center include recommended next steps. This improvement applies to the finding categories listed in Publish data profiles to Security Command Center.

IAM recommender findings are now available with project-level activations of Security Command Center.

Model Armor and GKE integration

Model Armor now enforces security policies uniformly on generative AI inference traffic using a traffic extension. This applies to all application load balancers, including Google Kubernetes Engine Inference Gateway. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Integration with Google Kubernetes Engine.

Cloud Run Threat Detection is available in Preview.

When activating Security Command Center Enterprise, you can monitor the provisioning status and progress of initial scans. This capability is in Preview.

Model Armor filter update

The prompt injection and jailbreak detection filter in Model Armor is upgraded with increased efficacy and higher model quality scores.

The Risk section of the SecOps console has been updated for Security Command Center Enterprise, introducing the following features in Preview:

• Issues are the most important security risks Security Command Center Enterprise has found in your cloud environments. Sourced from Security Command Center's virtual red teaming and security graph, issues give you all the details you need to understand, triage, and remediate a risk. Explore attack path diagrams, attack exposure scores, exposed resources, related findings, and whether multiple issues exist on a primary resource, all from the one place.
• Security graph is a graph database that has cloud resources like assets, identities, apps, and data assigned to its nodes, while the edges of the graph determine the risk relationship between those resources following detection rules. When a relationship risk is discovered, the security graph generates an issue.
• Chokepoints are critical severity issues that focus on common resources or resource groups where multiple attack paths converge. Because of this focus on a common point, resolving a chokepoint can resolve other issues too, like toxic combinations.

The Risk Overview dashboard has also been updated, and a new Issues page added to the Risk section. You can navigate through different security domains in the Risk section using the tabs near the top of the page, such as All risk, Vulnerabilities, and Code.

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) has launched support for the following:

• Log ingestion from Amazon SQS queues.
• An alternate CIEM only feed to reduce costs.

For more information, see Configure AWS log ingestion for CIEM.

This feature is available in General Availability to the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

The Execution: Malicious Python Executed detector in Container Threat Detection released to General Availability.

The following Event Threat Detection rules for Google Kubernetes Engine have been released to General Availability:

• GKE_NODEPORT_SERVICE_CREATED
• GKE_SENSITIVE_NAMESPACE_WORKLOAD_TRIGGERED
• GKE_STATIC_POD_CREATED
• GKE_TOR_PROXY_IP_REQUEST
• GKE_WEBHOOK_CONFIG_CREATED
• YL2_GKE_ANONYMOUS_USERS_GRANTED_ACCESS
• YL2_GKE_APPROVE_CSR_FORBIDDEN
• YL2_GKE_CRB_CLUSTERROLE_AGGREGATION_CONTROLLER
• YL2_GKE_MANUALLY_DELETED_CSR
• YL2_GKE_POD_MASQUERADING
• YL2_GKE_REVERSE_SHELL_POD
• YL2_GKE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREATION_SENSITIVE_NAMESPACE
• YL2_GKE_SUSPICIOUS_CRYPTOMINING_POD

Security Command Center has released the Artifact Registry vulnerability assessment detection service, which includes the CONTAINER_IMAGE_VULNERABILITY detector. This detector generates vulnerability findings for container images that are stored and scanned in Artifact Registry. The detector generates findings for vulnerable container images deployed to the following assets:

• Google Kubernetes Engine cluster
• Cloud Run revision
• Cloud Run job
• App Engine

This feature is available in Preview to all Security Command Center tiers.

The following detectors have been added to Container Threat Detection.

• Execution: Program Run with Disallowed HTTP Proxy Env
• Exfiltration: Launch Remote File Copy Tools in Container

For more information, see Container Threat Detection detectors.

The AWS connector has changed to enable additional use cases and requires the collection of AWS organization and organizational unit (OU) data. This change may require you to take additional action. For details about the change, see the AWS connector changelog.

You can use Virtual Machine Threat Detection to scan your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) VM disks for malware. To enable this feature, see Enable VM Threat Detection for AWS. This feature is in Preview.

Event Threat Detection, a built-in service of Security Command Center, has released new detectors. The following detectors, which are available in Preview with the Enterprise and Premium tiers of Security Command Center, allow users to manage threats to their Google Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery assets in Security Command Center:

• BACKUP_DELETE_VAULT
• BACKUP_DELETE_VAULT_BACKUP
• BACKUP_DELETE_BACKUP_PLAN_ASSOCIATION

In addition, we updated the existing BACKUP_REMOVE_PLAN detector to support findings on Google Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery assets that are managed in the Google Cloud console. This detector will dynamically generate finding descriptions based on the finding source.

You can now use Organization Policy Service custom constraints to provide more granular control over specific fields for some Security Command Center resources. For more information, see Configure custom organization policies. This feature is in General Availability.

Findings from Sensitive Data Protection include the INFO_TYPES and RELATED_RESOURCES fields when available. These fields appear in the sourceProperties field of the finding in Security Command Center. The affected finding categories are DATA_RISK, DATA_SENSITIVITY, PUBLIC_SENSITIVE_DATA, SECRETS_IN_STORAGE, and SENSITIVE_DATA_CMEK_DISABLED.

The attack path simulations feature can now automatically set the resource value of a Vertex AI dataset based on the sensitivity of the data that the dataset contains. For information about how to enable the automatic assignment of resource values based on data sensitivity, see Create a resource value configuration.

Security Command Center now supports integration with Snyk. This feature is in Preview.

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) has launched support for the following:

• AWS Managed Microsoft AD and on-premises Active Directory identities. This feature alerts you to potential misconfigurations in your on-premises Active Directory or AWS-managed Active Directory identities.
• Account-level findings in AWS. This lets you set up AWS audit logs for individual AWS accounts—instead of mandating logs across the entire AWS organization—and helps reduce your total cost of operations for CIEM in Security Command Center Enterprise.

Protect your AI applications using Model Armor

Model Armor is a Google Cloud service that enables you to apply content safety and content security controls to LLM prompts and responses to mitigate risks such as sensitive data leakage, prompt injection, and offensive content. For more information, see Model Armor overview.

Risk Engine, which generates attack exposure scores and attack paths for your high-value resources, now supports the spanner.googleapis.com/Instance resource type.

For more information, see Resource types supported in high-value resource sets.

Security Command Center now displays the number of resources scanned for a specific security compliance standard. This information appears as a column in the table on the Compliance detail page of the Google Cloud console for a given compliance standard.

To view the number of resources scanned against a security compliance standard, see Assess compliance against a specific standard.

A new Risk Overview page is the default view for Security Command Center Enterprise customers. It serves as your first contact security dashboard for the highest priority risks in your cloud environments. From here you can quickly assess toxic combinations, threats, compliance issues, and high impact vulnerabilities.

The Postures section in the SecOps console has been renamed to Risk, and moved to the top of the navigation for Security Command Center Enterprise customers. You can find the Vulnerabilities and Data Security dashboards here, along with the Findings and Resources pages.

A new error code, AWS_ACTIVE_COLLECTOR_ACCOUNTS_NOT_FOUND, is available in the AWS connector in Security Command Center. Additional guidance is available to help troubleshoot the 'AWS_FAILED_TO_ASSUME_DELEGATED_ROLE' error.

Install new version of the Security Command Center Enterprise use case

The installation and configuration of a new version of the SCC Enterprise - Cloud Orchestration & Remediation use case in the Security Operations console is required for the toxic combination functionality of Security Command Center Enterprise. The new use case, identified by date December 18, 2024, introduces updates to security posture findings playbooks and other enhancements to support the management of toxic combination findings and cases in the Security Operations console.

For installation instructions, see Update Enterprise use case, December 2024.

Security Health Analytics now supports new resource types for creating custom modules. For a full list of supported resource types, see Supported resource types.

Vulnerability Assessment for AWS now supports scanning container images in Elastic Container Registry (ECR). It can detect operating system misconfigurations and issues with installed packages.

For Security Command Center Enterprise customers, the Sensitive Data Protection discovery service is now automatically enabled during the Enterprise activation process. For more information, see Enable sensitive data discovery in the Enterprise tier.

Security Command Center can now produce Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) misconfiguration findings for federated identities that are connected to your AWS environment through the AWS IAM Identity Center.

Detector for Container Threat Detection released to General Availability

Container Threat Detection, a built-in service available in Security Command Center Premium and Enterprise, has launched three new detectors to General Availability:

• Execution: Container Escape: Detects when a process inside a container tries to break out of its isolation and interact with the host system or other containers.
• Execution: Kubernetes Attack Tool Execution: Detects when a Kubernetes attack tool is run inside a container, indicating a potential attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes environment.
• Execution: Local Reconnaissance Tool Execution: Detects when a local reconnaissance tool is executed within a container, suggesting that an attacker is gathering information about the container environment, such as network configurations, active processes, or mounted file systems.

For more information, see Container Threat Detection detectors.

AI summaries of attack paths are disabled in Security Command Center

Effective December 13, 2024, the preview of Gemini AI-generated summaries of Security Command Center attack paths is discontinued. The summaries are no longer available in the Google Cloud console.

For more information, see Gemini features in Security Command Center.

When activating the Security Command Center Enterprise tier, you now have the option to connect Security Command Center to an existing Google Security Operations instance or provision a new instance. For more information, see Activate the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

As of November 13, 2024, Security Command Center can produce Cloud Entitlement Infrastructure Management (CIEM) findings for the following identity and access issues in AWS environments:

• Users, groups, or assumed IAM roles that are inactive and have one or more permissions.
• Overly permissive trust policies that are enforced on an AWS IAM role.
• Identities that can move laterally through impersonation.

The Sensitive Data Protection discovery service is now included in Security Command Center Enterprise. To enable discovery, see Enable sensitive data discovery in the Enterprise tier.

The Sensitive Data Protection discovery service remains available to Security Command Center Premium and Standard customers as a separately priced feature.

Manage security postures using the Google Cloud console is generally available.

You can now create, deploy, update, and delete security postures using the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Manage a security posture.

The application steps to activate the Security Command Center Enterprise tier have been streamlined. For information, see Activate the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

The Defense Evasion: Rootkit detector of Virtual Machine Threat Detection is in General Availability. For more information, see Virtual Machine Threat Detection overview.

You can now view the configurations that determine the resource values of your high-value resource set. For more information, see View the configurations that match a high-value resource.

As of December 9, 2024, if you activate Security Command Center within an organization for the first time, then you must use only version 2 of the Security Command Center API in that organization. Earlier versions are not supported.

If you activated Security Command Center at the project level prior to December 9, 2024, then any projects you activate in the same organization will support all available versions of the Security Command Center API.

To migrate to the v2 API from an earlier version, see Migrate to v2 of the Security Command Center API.

The Vulnerability management dashboard was enhanced to include information about containers with exploitable vulnerabilities. This feature is in Preview.

Starting October 24, 2024, the IAM Recommender service is enabled by default when activating Security Command Center. You manage the IAM Recommender service under the Security Command Center Settings page > Integrated services tab. For more information, see Add integrated Google Cloud services to Security Command Center.

To help you detect potentially malicious anomalies in your network, Event Threat Detection now supports the ability to analyze foundational log sources, which produce Bad IP findings without enabling VPC Flow Logs. This feature is in Preview.

• If you activated Security Command Center Premium or Enterprise in a project or organization before October 18, 2024, then you have access to this feature in that project or organization.
• If you activated Security Command Center Premium or Enterprise at the project level before October 18, 2024, and you activate additional projects in the same organization, then the additional projects will have access to this feature.
• If you activated Security Command Center Premium or Enterprise in a project or organization on or after October 18, 2024, and you want to enable this feature, then contact Google Cloud Customer Care.

The v2 Security Command Center API is generally available (GA).

To migrate from an earlier version, see Migrate to v2 of the Security Command Center API.

Event Threat Detection's Outgoing DoS finding has been shut down and is no longer available.

The VMTD disabled finding category from Virtual Machine Threat Detection is no longer available. For more information about the finding categories that this built-in service provides, see Virtual Machine Threat Detection overview.

Toxic combination findings are generally available. This includes the following updates:

• Support for toxic combination findings on AWS resources. This feature is available in Preview.
• Addition of a new Toxic Combination Cases TTR and Trend widget on the Posture overview page of the Google Security Operations console. The widget details the trends for open and closed toxic combination cases for a specific time range.

Working with findings and resources in the Security Operations console

The ability to work with findings and resources using the Security Operations console is now in General Availability. This feature is available only to Security Command Center Enterprise customers.

The following capabilities were added since the Preview release of this feature:

• You can export findings to a CSV file.
• Additional query operators in the Add filters menu in the Query editor on the Findings page are now available.
• The autocomplete menu suggests possible values when your write queries in the Query editor. During Preview, the autocomplete menu suggested only filter names and functions.
• You can hide or display panels on the Findings page.
• Your sort and column settings are retained within the current session.

Install new version of the Security Command Center Enterprise use case

The installation and configuration of a new version of the SCC Enterprise - Cloud Orchestration & Remediation use case in the Security Operations console is required for the toxic combination functionality of Security Command Center Enterprise. The new use case, identified by date October 9, 2024, introduces a new widget, an updated ingestion logic, and other enhancements to support the management of toxic combination findings and cases in the Security Operations console.

For installation instructions, see Update Enterprise use case, October 2024.

Vulnerability management dashboard released to Preview

The new Vulnerability management dashboard lets you investigate CVE vulnerabilities identified in your Google Cloud and AWS environments.

This feature is available in Preview.

Manage security postures using the Google Cloud console

You can now create, deploy, update, and delete security postures using the Google Cloud console. This feature is available in Preview.

For more information, see Manage a security posture.

GKE Security Posture vulnerability findings now support attack exposure scores

GKE runtime OS vulnerability findings detected by GKE Security Posture in Google Cloud are now scored by attack path simulations. Use these attack exposure scores on vulnerabilities to help secure the resources that are the most valuable to your business and to address the most significant vulnerabilities in your GKE clusters. For more information, see Attack exposure scores.

Data residency for Security Command Center is now available in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

YARA rule names that appear in Virtual Machine Threat Detection findings will be renamed

On or after October 28, 2024, YARA rule names that appear in Malware: Malicious file on disk (YARA) findings from Virtual Machine Threat Detection will be renamed. This update will resolve naming inconsistencies in the YARA rules. The new naming convention will contain the prefix, designation, type, name, and iteration of the YARA rule. The following are examples of the new names:

• Ext_FE_Hunting_Linux_CYCLOPSBLINK_FEBeta
• M_APT_Controller_REDFLARE_1
• M_Backdoor_REDSONJA_4
• M_Cryptomine_XMRIG_1

Assign high-value resources based on Sensitive Data Protection insights for Amazon S3 buckets

The attack path simulations feature can now automatically set the resource value of an Amazon S3 bucket based on the sensitivity of the data that the bucket contains.

For information about how to enable the automatic assignment of resource values based on data sensitivity, see Create a resource value configuration.

For information about how to configure Sensitive Data Protection to send data sensitivity classifications to Security Command Center, see Publish data profiles to Security Command Center.

Validate updates to integrations in the Security Command Center Enterprise use case

Updates to the threat response playbook blocks and use case flows are available in the SCC Enterprise - Cloud Orchestration & Remediation use case for Security Command Center Enterprise. To get these changes, upgrade the integrations to the latest versions.

For more information, see Validate integration versions in the use case.

New configuration options for Vulnerability Assessment for AWS

When configuring Vulnerability Assessment for AWS, you can customize the scan settings by defining the scan interval, specific regions, specific tags, and specific instance IDs. You can also include SC1 or ST1 instances in the scan. For more information, see Enable and use Vulnerability Assessment for AWS.

Install new version of the Security Command Center Enterprise use case

The installation and configuration of a new version of the SCC Enterprise - Cloud Orchestration & Remediation use case in the Security Operations console is required for the toxic combination functionality of Security Command Center Enterprise. The new use case, identified by date, September 4, 2024, introduces updated widgets, new playbooks, optimized data synchronization jobs, updated ingestion logic, and other enhancements to support the management of toxic combination findings and cases in the Security Operations console.

For installation instructions, see Update Enterprise use case, September 2024.

Dynamic mute rules are generally available

Security Command Center now supports dynamic mute rules, which allow you to mute future and existing findings temporarily until a specified date or indefinitely until a finding no longer matches the configuration. We are adding these rules as an alternative to the original static mute rules that only mute future findings indefinitely.

We recommend using dynamic mute rules exclusively in your mute rule configurations. For instructions on how to migrate your existing mute rules to dynamic mute rules, see Migrate from static to dynamic mute rules.