Policy Intelligence release notes

This page documents production updates to Policy Intelligence. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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February 26, 2024

The IAM recommender offers role recommendations for BigQuery datasets. Role recommendations help you reduce excess permissions by suggesting role changes based on actual permission usage. This feature is available in Preview.

January 12, 2024

The requirement that customers have organization-level activations of Security Command Center to use certain Policy Intelligence features has been delayed until April 29, 2024. For more information about which features are affected by this change, see Billing questions.

November 07, 2023

You can use the Google Cloud console to analyze organization policies. This feature is available in Preview.

September 28, 2023

After January 15, 2024, some Policy Intelligence features will only be available for customers with organization-level activations of Security Command Center. For more information, see Billing questions.

Using Policy Troubleshooter to troubleshoot deny policies is generally available.

July 05, 2023

You can use Policy Troubleshooter to troubleshoot deny policies. This feature is in Preview.

January 24, 2023

Configurable IAM recommendations are now generally available. With configurable IAM recommendations, you can set the minimum observation period for the IAM recommender to 30 or 60 days instead of the default period of 90 days.

December 12, 2022

You can now use the Google Cloud console to write IAM policy analysis results to BigQuery. This feature is generally available.

December 05, 2022

You can now set the minimum observation period for the IAM recommender to 30 or 60 days instead of the default period of 90 days. For more information, see Configure role recommendation generation. This feature is available in Preview.

November 18, 2022

Policy Analyzer now offers organization policy analysis. Policy Analyzer helps you get more information about the resources affected by an organization policy constraint. This feature is available in Preview.

November 10, 2022

Role recommendations and policy insights for Cloud Storage buckets are now generally available. Additionally, you can now use the Google Cloud console to review bucket-level role recommendations and policy insights.

August 30, 2022

The user interface for Policy Troubleshooter in the Cloud console has been updated to improve usability. To view the new user interface, visit the Policy Troubleshooter page in the Cloud console.

July 08, 2022

Recommender now offers role recommendations for Cloud Storage buckets. Role recommendations help you reduce excess permissions by suggesting role changes based on actual permission usage. This feature is available in Preview.

July 01, 2022

Lateral movement insights, which identify roles that allow a service account in one project to impersonate a service account in another project, are now generally available.

June 27, 2022

In the Cloud console, Policy Troubleshooter for IAM allow policies now reports if there are deny policies that could affect a principal's access.