AUTH-008: Less Secure Apps Access
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Authentication & Access Controls
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Identity (weight 3)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Less secure apps (apps that don't support modern authentication) should be blocked to prevent credential exposure
Recommended value
Disabled for all users
Remediation
Admin Console > Security > Authentication > Less secure apps > Set to 'Disable access to less secure apps'
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 | FAIL |
| no-data | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- IA-5(2)
- CIS Benchmark
- 1.8
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.10.5v1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078.004, T1110
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