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Ensure User's password changed is configured

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6.1 Ensure User's password changed is configured

Profile Applicability

  • Enterprise Level 1

Description

Configuring and enabling the setting that an alert will be generated when a user's password has changed.

Rationale

Ensuring that administrators are alerted when user passwords are changed provides organizations with the ability to detect and halt potential attacks involving credential compromise and account takeover.

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 User's password changed and select it.
  5. Ensure that Alerts is set to On.
  6. Ensure the Severity is set to Medium.
  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's password changed 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 Medium.
  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's password changed shows an Alert status of On in the list.

Default Value

User's password changed is OFF.

References

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

CIS Controls

Controls VersionControlIG 1IG 2IG 3
v716.13 Alert on Account Login Behavior Deviationx