Cis Gworkspace 6.5

6.5 Ensure Suspicious programmatic login is configured

Profile Applicability

• Enterprise Level 1

Description

Configuring and enabling the setting that an alert will be generated when Google detects suspicious login attempts from applications or computer programs.

Rationale

Ensuring that administrators are alerted when suspicious login attempts occur. This could be an indication of an active attack on the company by an adversary using previously obtained credentials.

Impact

This setting should have no impact on the end user but will send emails to super administrators when triggered.

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 Suspicious programmatic login and select it.
5. Ensure that Alerts is set to On.
6. Ensure the Severity is set to Low.
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 Suspicious programmatic login 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 Low.
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 Suspicious programmatic login shows an Alert status of On in the list.

Default Value

Suspicious programmatic login is ON.

References

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

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