Most teams don’t under-secure Vertex AI because they’re careless.

They do it because they confuse setup with a security baseline.

IAM and logging are not enough.
A real baseline means isolation, service perimeters, secrets discipline, model governance, and runtime protection.

In this post, I break down the minimum controls you need to run Vertex AI safely in production in 2026.

https://medium.com/google-cloud/how-to-secure-vertex-ai-in-2026-the-minimum-security-baseline-for-generative-ai-on-google-cloud-cf7982b9ed7a