GROUP-004: Group creation restricted to administrators (GWS.GROUPS.2.1)
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Collaboration
- Severity
- Low
- Zero Trust pillar
- Governance (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
SCuBA GWS.GROUPS.2.1 recommends restricting who can create Groups for Business to administrators. When any user can create groups, group sprawl outpaces governance and external-sharing defaults may be applied without review. This check flags organizational units where the create-groups access level is not ADMIN_ONLY.
Recommended value
Group creation access level set to ADMIN_ONLY
Remediation
In Groups for Business settings, set 'who can create groups' to admins only, so new groups are created deliberately and inherit reviewed sharing settings.
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 |
| not-assessed | Not Assessed |
| warn | WARN |
Framework mappings
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.GROUPS.2.1v1
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-2, AC-6, PM-10