diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/docker_sandbox.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/docker_sandbox.go
index c7d3c4ae233..81f8b771897 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/docker_sandbox.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/docker_sandbox.go
@@ -666,12 +666,6 @@ func (ds *dockerService) makeSandboxDockerConfig(c *runtimeapi.PodSandboxConfig,
 	return createConfig, nil
 }
 
-func (ds *dockerService) getSandBoxSecurityOpts(separator rune) []string {
-	// run sandbox with no-new-privileges and using runtime/default
-	// sending no "seccomp=" means docker will use default profile
-	return []string{"no-new-privileges"}
-}
-
 // networkNamespaceMode returns the network runtimeapi.NamespaceMode for this container.
 // Supports: POD, NODE
 func networkNamespaceMode(container *dockertypes.ContainerJSON) runtimeapi.NamespaceMode {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_linux.go
index 68173119e9f..a892499e754 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_linux.go
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ func (ds *dockerService) getSecurityOpts(seccompProfile string, separator rune)
 	return seccompSecurityOpts, nil
 }
 
+func (ds *dockerService) getSandBoxSecurityOpts(separator rune) []string {
+	// run sandbox with no-new-privileges and using runtime/default
+	// sending no "seccomp=" means docker will use default profile
+	return []string{"no-new-privileges"}
+}
+
 func getSeccompDockerOpts(seccompProfile string) ([]dockerOpt, error) {
 	if seccompProfile == "" || seccompProfile == v1.SeccompProfileNameUnconfined {
 		// return early the default
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_unsupported.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_unsupported.go
index 09b2d491409..cdf7128fd5b 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_unsupported.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_unsupported.go
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ func (ds *dockerService) getSecurityOpts(seccompProfile string, separator rune)
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
+func (ds *dockerService) getSandBoxSecurityOpts(separator rune) []string {
+	klog.Warningf("getSandBoxSecurityOpts is unsupported in this build")
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (ds *dockerService) updateCreateConfig(
 	createConfig *dockertypes.ContainerCreateConfig,
 	config *runtimeapi.ContainerConfig,
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_windows.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_windows.go
index e8681485f83..119fcc66294 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_windows.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers_windows.go
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ func (ds *dockerService) getSecurityOpts(seccompProfile string, separator rune)
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
+func (ds *dockerService) getSandBoxSecurityOpts(separator rune) []string {
+	// Currently, Windows container does not support privileged mode, so no no-new-privileges flag can be returned directly like Linux
+	// If the future Windows container has new support for privileged mode, we can adjust it here
+	return nil
+}
+
 // applyExperimentalCreateConfig applys experimental configures from sandbox annotations.
 func applyExperimentalCreateConfig(createConfig *dockertypes.ContainerCreateConfig, annotations map[string]string) {
 	if kubeletapis.ShouldIsolatedByHyperV(annotations) {