ADMIN-011: Group Creation Restrictions

Platform
Google Workspace
Category
Admin & User Management
Severity
Medium
Zero Trust pillar
Governance (weight 1)
Golden fixtures
3
Branch coverage
Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
Provenance
baseline

What it checks

Group creation should be restricted to prevent proliferation of unmanaged groups that may expose organizational data

Recommended value

Group creation restricted to admins or specific delegated roles

Remediation

Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Groups for Business > Sharing settings > Restrict who can create groups

Fixture-proven verdicts

Every verdict below is proven by a golden fixture in the module's gating test suite. This table derives from the last green run; it cannot be edited by hand.

Verdict scenarios for ADMIN-011
ScenarioExpected verdict
cleanPASS
known-badFAIL
no-dataNot Assessed

Framework mappings

NIST SP 800-53
CM-7, AC-6
CIS Benchmark
4.11
MITRE ATT&CK
T1136.003