DRIVE-008: Drive for Desktop Allowed/Blocked
- 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
Drive for Desktop syncs files locally and should be controlled to prevent data from being stored on unmanaged endpoints
Recommended value
Drive for Desktop restricted to managed devices or disabled
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs > Features and Applications > Drive for Desktop > Configure access
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 | WARN |
| no-data | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- SC-28, MP-7
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.8
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530, T1005