TMA-GWS-1.1.2
Ensure super admin accounts are used only for super admin activities
Description
Super admin accounts have access to all features in the Google Admin console and Admin API and can manage every aspect of your organization's account. Super admins also have full access to all users' calendars and event details. It is recommended to give each super administrator two accounts. One for their super admin account and a second account for daily activities. Users should only sign in to a super admin account to perform super admin tasks, such as setting up 2-Step Verification (2SV), managing billing and user licenses, or helping another admin recover their account. Super administrators should use a separate, non-admin account for day- to-day activities. Super admins should sign in as needed to do specific tasks and then sign out. Leaving super admin accounts sign-in can increase exposure to phishing attacks. Use the super admin account only when needed. Delegate administrato...
How it is checked
Audit method: Manual review
This recommendation cannot be checked automatically. A scan lists it with these instructions when you pass --include-manual.
To verify this setting via the Google Admin Console: 1. Log in to https://admin.google.com as an administrator 2. Go to Directory and click on Users, this will show a list of all users 3. Click on + Add a filter, select Admin role, check the Super admin box, and then select Apply 4. The list of Users displayed will only be those with the Super Admin role 5. Click on + Add a filter, select Admin role, check the Delegated admin box, and then select Apply 6. Verify that there are no users in both the Super admin and Delegated admin roles
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
For every Super admin that is also a Delegated admin account, either create a Delegated admin account for the user of elevate or their existing non-admin account to a Delegated admin account.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- google-workspacesaas
- Reference
- CIS Google Workspace Foundations Benchmark v1.4.0 - 1.1.2 Ensure super admin accounts are used only for super admin activities