EMAIL-013: Enhanced Pre-Delivery Message Scanning
- 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
Enhanced pre-delivery message scanning uses advanced heuristics and sandboxing to detect malware and threats before messages are delivered to user inboxes
Recommended value
Enhanced pre-delivery message scanning enabled
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > Spam, phishing and malware > Enable 'Enhanced pre-delivery message scanning' to identify suspicious content
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 |
| no-data | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- SI-3, SI-8
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.13
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.001, T1204.001