EMAIL-021: S/MIME Settings
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Severity
- Low
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 1)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
S/MIME provides end-to-end email encryption and digital signatures. If required by compliance, S/MIME certificates should be properly configured and managed
Recommended value
S/MIME enabled if required by compliance; certificates properly managed
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > End User Access > S/MIME > Enable hosted S/MIME if required and ensure certificates are uploaded and valid
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 |
| no-data | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- SC-8(1), SC-12
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.21
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1557, T1040