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Compliance · Medium severity

GCP IAM Policy Grants Access to Gmail Account

A personal account outside your organization holds access, and it cannot be disabled by you when that person leaves.

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Google Cloudprovider
Mediumseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google Cloud

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Remove personal Gmail IAM grant.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
Any resource in the account
The fix, by hand
  1. Cloud Console → IAM and Admin → IAM → filter principals by @gmail.com.
  2. For each Gmail account, identify the equivalent organization-domain identity (e.g. user@your-corp.com).
  3. Grant the same roles to the organization identity (Add → Principal → role list).
  4. Remove the Gmail bindings (Edit → trash icon → Save).
  5. Enable Org Policy constraints/iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains restricting principals to your Cloud Identity customer IDs. Cloud Console → IAM and Admin → Organization Policies.
  6. Audit periodically: gcloud asset search-all-iam-policies --scope=organizations/‹org-id› --query='memberTypes:user policy.role.permissions:* member:gmail.com'.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-133
Full reference

GCP IAM Policy Grants Access to Gmail Account

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