🛡️ Google Cloud Organization Policies are not configured for centralized constraints🟢⚪

• Contextual name: 🛡️ Organization Policies are not configured for centralized constraints🟢⚪
• ID: /ce/ca/google/project/organization-policies-centralized-constraints
• Tags:
  • ⚪ Impossible policy
  • 🟢 Policy with categories
  • 🟢 Policy with type
• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Categories: SECURITY

Description

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Description

Configure baseline Google Cloud Organization Policies at the organization or folder level to enforce centralized constraints across projects. Examples include requiring OS Login, restricting public IP addresses on VMs, limiting resource locations, enforcing uniform bucket-level access, and restricting IAM member domains.

Rationale

Organization Policies provide preventive guardrails that apply across the resource hierarchy. Without baseline constraints, projects can configure resources inconsistently, use unapproved regions, allow external sharing, or bypass security expectations even when IAM permissions are otherwise limited.

Impact

Organization Policies can block existing or planned resource configurations. Test policies in dry-run mode or in non-production folders before broad enforcement, and define an exception process for approved use cases.

Audit

From Google Cloud Console

1. Open the Google Cloud Console at https://console.cloud.google.com.
2. Select the organization.
3. Go to IAM & Admin > Organization Policies.

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Remediation

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Remediation

From Google Cloud Console

1. Document the baseline Organization Policies required by the organization.
2. Open the Google Cloud Console at https://console.cloud.google.com.
3. Select the organization.
4. Go to IAM & Admin > Organization Policies.
5. For each required constraint, click Manage policy.
6. Configure enforcement or allowed and denied values according to the baseline.
7. Use dry-run mode or non-production folders to validate the effect before broad enforcement.
8. Review folder and project overrides and remove exceptions that are not approved.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags	Compliance
💼 CIS GCP v5.0.0 → 💼 1.1.4 Ensure Organization Policies Are Configured For Centralized Constraints - Level 2 (Manual)			1		no data
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Secure Access			61		no data