Deprecations and shut down features

The Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service (section 1.4(d), "Discontinuation of Services") defines the deprecation policy that applies to Security Command Center. The deprecation policy only applies to the services, features, or products listed therein.

After a service, feature, or product is officially deprecated, it continues to be available for at least the period of time defined in the Terms of Service. After this period of time, the service is scheduled for shutdown.

Feature Deprecated date Shutdown date Details

Security Health Analytics use of security marks for asset allowlists

June 26, 2023

On or after April 15, 2025

Feature	Deprecated date	Shutdown date	Details
Security Health Analytics use of security marks for asset allowlists	June 26, 2023	On or after April 15, 2025	This feature is available only in instances of Security Command Center that were activated before June 26, 2023. If your activation of Security Command Center began on or after June 26, 2023, use the mute feature to suppress findings for certain assets. After April 15, 2025, you can still apply security marks to assets, but they no longer affect the way that Security Health Analytics processes assets. For more information about security marks for assets, see Add assets to allowlists.
Rapid Vulnerability Detection service	May 14, 2024	July 14, 2024	The Preview release of the Rapid Vulnerability Detection service is discontinued and the service was shut down on July 14, 2024. The status of any findings produced by the Rapid Vulnerability Detection service have automatically been set to `Inactive`. Findings are retained for the period defined in the Security Command Center data retention policy.
Security Command Center asset management features: Security Command Center Asset API endpoints Except for `gcloud scc assets update-marks`, the assets subgroup of the `gcloud scc` The Assets page and related functionality in the Google Cloud console	June 20, 2023	On or after June 20, 2024	This feature is available only in instances of Security Command Center that were activated before June 20, 2023, and used the asset functionality in the 90 days prior to that date. If your organization activated Security Command Center before June 20, 2023, plan to migrate your asset management operations from the Security Command Center API and the `gcloud scc assets` commands to Cloud Asset Inventory by June 20, 2024. These Security Command Center asset management features will be removed from Security Command Center for all users on or after June 20, 2024. For a list of asset types that Cloud Asset Inventory supports, see Supported asset types.

This feature is available only in instances of Security Command Center that were activated before June 26, 2023. If your activation of Security Command Center began on or after June 26, 2023, use the mute feature to suppress findings for certain assets.

After April 15, 2025, you can still apply security marks to assets, but they no longer affect the way that Security Health Analytics processes assets.

For more information about security marks for assets, see Add assets to allowlists.

Rapid Vulnerability Detection service

May 14, 2024

July 14, 2024

The Preview release of the Rapid Vulnerability Detection service is discontinued and the service was shut down on July 14, 2024.

The status of any findings produced by the Rapid Vulnerability Detection service have automatically been set to Inactive. Findings are retained for the period defined in the Security Command Center data retention policy.

Security Command Center asset management features:

Security Command Center Asset API endpoints
Except for gcloud scc assets update-marks, the assets subgroup of the gcloud scc
The Assets page and related functionality in the Google Cloud console

June 20, 2023

On or after June 20, 2024

This feature is available only in instances of Security Command Center that were activated before June 20, 2023, and used the asset functionality in the 90 days prior to that date.

If your organization activated Security Command Center before June 20, 2023, plan to migrate your asset management operations from the Security Command Center API and the gcloud scc assets commands to Cloud Asset Inventory by June 20, 2024. These Security Command Center asset management features will be removed from Security Command Center for all users on or after June 20, 2024.

For a list of asset types that Cloud Asset Inventory supports, see Supported asset types.

Detector shut downs

Detection rules and modules are managed services, and aren't subject to Google Cloud's deprecation policy. They can be shut down when they have become redundant or have lost relevance.

Service	Finding display name	API name	Shutdown date	Description
Event Threat Detection	Outgoing DoS	`OUTGOING_DOS`	October 24, 2024	Detects outgoing denial of service traffic.
VM Threat Detection	VMTD disabled	`VMTD_DISABLED`	October 18, 2024	VM Threat Detection is disabled. Until you enable it, this service can't scan your Compute Engine projects and VM instances for unwanted applications.