How to govern Windsurf
A step-by-step guide to governing Windsurf with Rencore: detect with 16 policies, review with 3 reports, and remediate with 2 automations.
Governing Windsurf means keeping its access, configuration, and lifecycle under continuous control rather than reacting after something breaks. Rencore governs Windsurf with 16 pre-built policies, 3 reports, and 2 automations, so teams can detect risk, review posture, and remediate with an audit trail. The steps below turn that coverage into a repeatable routine.
Steps
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Inventory Windsurf
Connect Windsurf and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Windsurf to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Windsurf reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Recommended Windsurf policies
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Windsurf catalog on the Windsurf connector page.
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Windsurf member is an admin
Members with the admin role have a wider blast radius, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited.
Severity: High -
Windsurf member is active
Active members are live, in-use identities, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf seat is active
Active seats are live, reachable license assignments, raising the likelihood that any gap is exploited.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf Cascade run performed tool calls
Runs that invoked tools acted on external systems, raising the likelihood of real-world impact.
Severity: High -
Windsurf model served via bring-your-own-key
BYO-key model usage bypasses central controls, raising the likelihood that abuse goes undetected.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf member deactivated in Entra ID
Detects Windsurf members who are deactivated in the parent Entra ID.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf team has too many admins
Detects Windsurf teams with more than 5 admins.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf external guest member
Detects Windsurf members that are external users in Entra ID.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf inactive seat still billed
Detects active seats whose member has not been active in the last 30 days.
Severity: Medium
