COLLAB-006: Chat Spaces External Access
- 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 spaces (rooms) that allow external members can expose internal communications and shared files to unauthorized parties
Recommended value
External access to Chat spaces restricted or disabled
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Google Chat > Chat settings > Spaces > Restrict external access to spaces
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
- AC-3, AC-4
- CIS Benchmark
- 5.6
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530, T1213