News · curated 5 Jul 2026

Securing agentic AI: What's new in VPC Service Controls | Google Cloud Blog

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5 Jul 2026google.com

Single-source advisory — first reported, latest, and curated coincide.

Why it matters

It gives defenders network-perimeter controls to constrain compromised agents and enforce tool-level (MCP) policy, addressing agentic data-exfiltration and tool-abuse risks.

Google Cloud announces new VPC Service Controls capabilities aimed at securing agentic AI workloads, including treating agents as first-class IAM identities in ingress/egress rules, conditional access based on MCP attributes (mcp.toolName, mcp.method, mcp.tool.isReadOnly), and native integration blocking public access to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.