Raising the security baseline: Essential AI and cloud security now on by default

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At Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI Blog says that modern cloud defense should have AI protection built in and accessible by default, delivering native guardrails and controls that are essential to ensuring that security strengthens your AI rollouts. To support the next generation of AI innovators, Google Cloud AI Blog is making essential AI security and cloud security on by default with a newly enhanced Security Command Center (SCC) Standard tier. This foundational security and compliance management service is now automatically enabled for eligible customers. Democratizing AI protection and cloud security To ensure your AI projects stay on track, SCC Standard now provides several enhanced capabilities at no cost: AI protection democratization: The free Standard tier includes a unified AI protection dashboard, and can detect unprotected Gemini inference, report on large-language model and agent interaction guardrail violations, and offers four baseline AI posture controls. These capabilities will be generally available by the end of June. Upgraded security posture checks: The free security baseline for the Standard tier now offers more than 44 misconfiguration checks based on the…