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Enforce security group policy across all users

Automatically audit and correct group memberships to match your security policy, ensuring every user has the right access at all times.

Who it is forIT security teams responsible for maintaining least-privilege group membership.
APIsAdmin SDK
Typical scopesadmin.directory.group, admin.directory.group.member

The problem

Manual group management drifts over time—users retain access after role changes, or miss required groups after onboarding. This exposes sensitive resources and leaves audit trails incomplete.

How it works

  1. Maintain an authoritative mapping of users to required groups.
  2. List all current group memberships via the Admin SDK.
  3. Compare actual memberships to policy, identifying excesses or shortfalls.
  4. Use the Admin SDK to add or remove users from groups as needed.

What changes

Group memberships stay aligned with policy, reducing lateral movement risk and audit exceptions.

The trap in this one. Group membership changes via the Admin SDK can take several minutes to propagate. If your job makes a correction and then immediately audits, it may read stale data and trigger false positives, causing repeated, unnecessary API calls and audit noise. Always account for propagation delay between write and verify steps.

Watch it explained

“Leverage Google Workspace for GCP Resource Access | Walkthrough | Pwned Labs” — Pwned Labs on YouTube. Third-party video, included because it covers this ground well. We are not affiliated with the channel.

Questions people ask

How should I store the canonical policy?

Use a source of truth outside Workspace, such as an HR system or configuration file, and feed it into the enforcement job.

Can this handle nested groups?

The Admin SDK does not flatten nested group membership, so you must resolve nesting manually if your policy depends on it.

Want this built?

This is a pattern we run in production. We will set up the delegation and build this on top of it — $500 per hour, most of it working the same day.

Talk to us Or read the setup guide

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