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.
| Scenario | Expected verdict |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| known-bad | FAIL |
| no-data | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- CM-7, AC-6
- CIS Benchmark
- 4.11
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1136.003