EMAIL-006: Email Allowlist/Blocklist Review
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Severity
- Medium
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 1)
- Golden fixtures
- 1
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Email allowlists and blocklists should be reviewed for overly permissive entries. Allowlisted senders bypass spam filtering and can be exploited if misconfigured
Recommended value
Minimal allowlist entries with no wildcard domains; blocklist actively maintained
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > Spam, phishing and malware > Review Email allowlists and Blocked senders lists for overly broad entries
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 |
|---|---|
| always-warn | WARN |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- SI-8, SC-7(5)
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.6
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.GMAIL.14.1v1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.001