EMAIL-011: POP/IMAP Access Settings
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
POP and IMAP access should be disabled unless specifically required. These legacy protocols bypass modern security controls and can be used for credential-based attacks
Recommended value
POP and IMAP disabled for all users
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > End User Access > Disable POP and IMAP access. Review individual user settings 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 | FAIL |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-17(2), CM-7
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.11
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078.004, T1110