GTRADE-005: Super-Admin-Equivalent Custom Roles
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Adversary Tradecraft
- Severity
- Medium
- Zero Trust pillar
- Visibility & Analytics (weight 1)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- original
What it checks
Custom admin roles carrying high-power privileges (user management, security settings, role management, data export/Takeout) can approximate super-admin capability while evading a simple super-admin head-count — a quiet privilege-concentration and persistence vector.
Recommended value
No custom role carries super-admin-equivalent privileges (user/security/role management or data export) outside break-glass use
Remediation
Account > Admin roles: review custom roles holding user-management, security-settings, role-management, or data-export/Takeout privileges; split into narrowly-scoped roles and limit assignees.
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 |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-6, AC-6(7)
- CIS Benchmark
- 1.x
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1098