COLLAB-005: Chat History Settings
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Collaboration
- Severity
- Medium
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 1)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Chat history should be enabled and retained for compliance and audit purposes. Disabling history can hide malicious communications
Recommended value
Chat history enabled and retained according to retention policy
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Google Chat > Chat settings > History > Enable history and configure retention
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
- AU-11, AU-3
- CIS Benchmark
- 5.5
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.CHAT.1.1v1, GWS.CHAT.1.2v1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1070.008