Amazon_EC2_55

Restrict outbound traffic to that which is necessary, and specifically deny all other traffic

Description

Security groups provide stateful filtering of ingress/egress network traffic to AWS resources. It is recommended that no security group allows unrestricted egress access

Remediation

Reduce the scope of the outbound rules to just the necessary scope, protocol, and ports

Service

EC2

Severity

Medium

Compliance

Mapping

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