Cis Gworkspace 6.3

6.3 Ensure User suspended due to suspicious activity is configured

Profile Applicability

• Enterprise Level 1

Description

Configuring and enabling the setting that an alert will be generated when Google suspended a user's account due to a potential compromise detected.

Rationale

Ensuring that administrators are alerted when the account was suspended by Google. The reason for this should be investigated ASAP, since it could be a possible indication of malicious activity. In any case, the user's account was suspended and something will need to be done to allow the user to resume work.

Impact

Emails will be sent to all super administrators when triggered. Also, the user's account will be suspended and something will need to be done about that based on company policy (investigated, re-enabled, etc.).

Audit

To verify this setting via the Google Workspace Admin Console:

1. Log in to https://admin.google.com as an administrator.
2. Select Rules.
3. Under Google protects you by default select View list.
4. Scroll to User suspended due to suspicious activity and select it.
5. Ensure that Alerts is set to On.
6. Ensure the Severity is set to High.
7. Ensure that Email Notifications is set to On.
8. Ensure that Email notification recipients is set to All super administrators.

Remediation

To verify this setting via the Google Workspace Admin Console:

1. Log in to https://admin.google.com as an administrator.
2. Select Rules.
3. Under Google protects you by default select View list.
4. Scroll to User suspended due to suspicious activity and select it.
5. Within the Actions pane, click the edit pencil on the right side of the pane.
6. Select Send to alert center (This will result in the alert being set to On).
7. Set the alert severity to High.
8. To enable emails when this alert condition is met, select Send email notifications. Once enabled, the All super administrators option is selected by default.
9. Click Review to confirm the values.
10. Click Update Rule.
11. Confirm that the User suspended due to suspicious activity shows an Alert status of On in the list.

Default Value

User suspended due to suspicious activity is ON.

References

1. https://support.google.com/a/answer/3230421

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