DRIVE-004: Shared Drive Creation Restrictions

Platform
Google Workspace
Category
Drive Security & Data Protection
Severity
Medium
Zero Trust pillar
Data (weight 1)
Golden fixtures
3
Branch coverage
Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
Provenance
baseline

What it checks

Shared Drive creation should be restricted to prevent uncontrolled proliferation and ensure proper governance of shared data repositories

Recommended value

Shared Drive creation restricted to specific groups or admins

Remediation

Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs > Sharing settings > Shared drive creation > Restrict who can create shared drives

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 DRIVE-004
ScenarioExpected verdict
cleanPASS
known-badWARN
no-dataNot Assessed

Framework mappings

NIST SP 800-53
CM-7, AC-6
CIS Benchmark
2.4
CISA SCuBA
GWS.DRIVEDOCS.2.1v1, GWS.DRIVEDOCS.2.2v1
MITRE ATT&CK
T1530