diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/cuttlefish_defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/cuttlefish_defconfig
index 8897572788d2..2a6b0a950bc9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/configs/cuttlefish_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/configs/cuttlefish_defconfig
@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
 CONFIG_PSTORE=y
 CONFIG_PSTORE_CONSOLE=y
 CONFIG_PSTORE_RAM=y
+CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT=y
 CONFIG_SECURITY=y
 CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
 CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=65536
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_cuttlefish_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_cuttlefish_defconfig
index 40026fb95672..937f715f5fee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_cuttlefish_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_cuttlefish_defconfig
@@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
 CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
 CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
 CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
+CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT=y
 CONFIG_SECURITY=y
 CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
 CONFIG_SECURITY_PATH=y