How to govern Security in Windsurf
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in Windsurf with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in Windsurf means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Windsurf with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
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 Security in 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.
Windsurf controls for Security
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 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 -
Remove Windsurf Member
Automatically removes a member from the Windsurf team after approval
