EMAIL-012: Spam and Phishing Filter Settings
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 1
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Enhanced spam and phishing filters should be enabled to provide maximum protection against social engineering attacks and malicious email campaigns
Recommended value
Enhanced spam filtering and aggressive phishing detection enabled
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > Spam, phishing and malware > Enable 'Be more aggressive when filtering spam' and all phishing protection options
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, SI-3
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.12
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.001, T1566.002