Cis Gworkspace 5.1.1.2

5.1.1.2 Ensure the Security Report is reviewed regularly for anomalies

Profile Applicability

• Enterprise Level 1

Description

As your organization's administrator, you can monitor your users' exposure to data compromise by reviewing the security report.

Fields Available:

• User
• External apps
• 2-Step verification enrollment
• 2-Step verification enforcement
• Password length compliance
• Password strength
• User account status
• Admin status
• Security keys enrolled
• Less secure apps access
• Gmail (IMAP) - last used time
• Gmail (POP) - last used time
• Gmail (Web) - last used time
• External shares
• Internal shares
• Public
• Anyone with link
• Outside domain
• Anyone in domain shares
• Anyone in domain with link shares
• Within domain shares
• Private shares

This report should be reviewed weekly.

NOTE: In larger organizations reviewing this entire report weekly may not be possible. At a minimum, all Administrator and Super Administrator users should be reviewed, since they are a higher risk. These can be filtered from the overall user list.

Rationale

The Security report provides a comprehensive view of how people share and access data and whether they take appropriate security precautions. For example, you can review who installs external apps, shares numerous files, skips 2-Step Verification, and uses security keys.

Impact

No user impact.

Audit

To verify this setting via the Google Workspace Admin Console:

1. Log in to https://admin.google.com as an administrator.
2. Select Reporting.
3. Select Reports.
4. Select User Reports.
5. Select Security, and a table of results will be displayed with the fields listed in the Recommendation description above.
6. Review the displayed users and values for anomalies.

Remediation

The remediation for any anomalies in the various fields varies widely (different sections of the Google Workspace Admin UI). Please refer to Google's documentation for specifics.

NOTE: Many of these settings will be remedied by implementing other sections of this Benchmark. For example, an Admin not enrolled in 2-Step Verification can be remedied by implementing the Remediation procedure for the recommendation Ensure 2-Step Verification (Multi-Factor Authentication) is enforced for all users in administrative roles.

Default Value

The report will display all users and fields.

References

1. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6000269

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