Cloud NGFW: Advanced Malware Sandbox Temporarily Removed
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The Advanced malware sandbox (WildFire) feature in Cloud NGFW has been temporarily removed due to a critical breaking change. Enabling this functionality on existing firewall endpoints was found to cause temporary data plane outages. This impacts users who rely on WildFire for advanced malware detection within their Google Cloud network security configurations.
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- Cloud NGFW
Enabling Advanced malware sandbox (WildFire) in an existing firewall endpoint can cause a temporary data plane outage. As a result, the Advanced malware sandbox feature is temporarily removed.
Read the original announcement →
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#July_27_2026
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