Three months ago I predicted Security Command Center was heading into maintenance mode. I said Wiz would absorb its multicloud capabilities.
Now Security Command Center Enterprise tier shuts down on May 21, 2027. Organizations on Enterprise move automatically to the Premium tier.
What Enterprise Actually Offered
SCC Enterprise was Google's premium multicloud CNAPP. Here is what it added on top of Premium:
- Vulnerability Assessment for AWS
- Mandiant Attack Surface Management and Mandiant Threat Defense
- Google SecOps integration
- Multicloud support for AWS and Azure
Almost everything on that list is either Mandiant-sourced or multicloud coverage. Those are all capabilities where Wiz is just better.
This Is Not a Big Hit for Most Customers
Most SCC Enterprise customers will not feel much pain from this change.
The Enterprise tier was never widely adopted. It was expensive. It competed with Wiz, Upwind, and Orca at a price point where those platforms had more mature products. The multicloud capabilities were decent, but they were not why people chose GCP security tooling. GCP customers mostly care about GCP. AWS and Azure coverage was useful but not the reason anyone signed a contract.
When Google says you are moving to Premium, most customers lose features they were not heavily using anyway.
What This Signals
Google is not trying to build a competitive multicloud CNAPP inside SCC. They bought one.
Multicloud coverage moves to Wiz. Everything Enterprise offered for AWS and Azure will go through Wiz going forward. SCC Premium stays alive for a clear reason: startups and smaller companies that do not need Wiz. If you run a GCP-first environment without complex multicloud requirements, Premium gives you solid native security at a reasonable cost. Google needs that offering.
But for multicloud, for enterprise-grade CNAPP, for anything beyond GCP-native posture management, you will be looking at Wiz.
How the Integration Will Look in Practice
Here is my prediction for how Wiz surfaces in the SCC UI.
It will look like SecOps.
If you have used Security Command Center, you likely know how Google SecOps works today. You get a button inside the Security menu. You click it and get redirected to the SecOps platform. The integration doesnt feel native. Two separate products with a link between them.
Wiz will work the same way. A button in the security menu that takes you to Wiz. No unified data in a single pane of glass. And to activate it, you will need to talk to sales. Exactly like with SecOps today.
This is how Google integrates acquired products. They preserve the product identity, add an entry point from the existing platform, and make you go through a sales motion to unlock it. Not seamless. But it works.
Where My Predictions Stand
In my March article I made some predictions. Here is where they land today:
- SCC enters maintenance mode. Confirmed.
- Wiz becomes the flagship multicloud security product. Confirmed.
- Multicloud features in SCC slow down. Confirmed.
For Wiz they are still pushing out changes for all clouds at the same time.
What I am still watching: whether Google ships GCP-exclusive Wiz features. Deep Cloud Run runtime monitoring. Native kernel-level container visibility.
The bigger question is whether Wiz's enterprise customers stay neutral. If you run on AWS and Azure and your security platform is now owned by a cloud competitor, a redirect button and a sales call is not a confidence-building integration story. Orca, Prisma Cloud, and Upwind are already making that argument to your procurement team.
Bottom Line
SCC Enterprise shutting down is a clean signal.
Premium survives for the GCP-native segment. Wiz serves enterprise and multicloud.
If you still run on SCC Enterprise, your migration path is Premium for now and Wiz for anything multicloud going forward.
The platform consolidation I predicted in March is moving faster than I expected. Now the only question still open, what happens to companies still having contracts for SCC Enterprise. Are they able to migrate the licenses?
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