AUTH-004: Password Minimum Length
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Authentication & Access Controls
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Identity (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Password minimum length should be at least 12 characters to resist brute-force and dictionary attacks
Recommended value
Minimum 12 characters
Remediation
Admin Console > Security > Authentication > Password management > Set minimum length to 12 or higher
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
- IA-5(1)
- CIS Benchmark
- 1.4
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.5.1v1, GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.5.2v1, GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.5.3v1, GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.5.4v1, GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.5.5v1, GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.5.6v1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1110.001, T1110.003