EMAIL-031: Enhanced pre-delivery message scanning enabled (GWS.GMAIL.15.1)
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Severity
- Medium
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Declared verdict paths, each proven by a fixture
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
SCuBA GWS.GMAIL.15.1 requires enhanced pre-delivery message scanning, which improves detection of suspicious and phishing content before a message reaches the inbox. This check reads the gmail.enhanced_pre_delivery_message_scanning Cloud Identity policy and flags any organizational unit where improved suspicious-content detection is not enabled.
Recommended value
Enhanced pre-delivery message scanning enabled (enableImprovedSuspiciousContentDetection = true) in all organizational units.
Remediation
In the Google Admin console, under Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail > Spam, Phishing, and Malware, enable enhanced pre-delivery message scanning so Gmail performs additional analysis of suspicious content before delivery.
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 |
| not-assessed | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.GMAIL.15.1v1
- NIST SP 800-53
- SI-3, SI-8