EMAIL-010: Delegate Access Settings
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- 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
Mail delegation allows users to grant other users read and send access to their mailbox. Excessive delegation can lead to unauthorized access and impersonation
Recommended value
Mail delegation restricted and reviewed periodically; no unexpected delegates
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > End User Access > Review mail delegation settings. Check individual users for unauthorized delegates via Gmail API
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 |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-3, AC-6(1)
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.10
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1098.002, T1114.002