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Ensure network firewall rule groups are stateful or stateless

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Operational Maturity, Reliability, Security

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the network firewall rule groups to be either stateless or stateful for AWS EC2 using the AWS console, follow these step-by-step instructions:

  1. Login to AWS Console: Go to the AWS Management Console (https://aws.amazon.com/console/) and login to your AWS account.

  2. Navigate to EC2 Service: Click on the “Services” dropdown menu at the top left corner of the console, then select “EC2” under the Compute section.

  3. Select Security Groups: In the EC2 dashboard, click on “Security Groups” in the left-hand navigation pane.

  4. Identify the Security Group: Identify the security group associated with your EC2 instance that you want to update the firewall rules for.

  5. Review Rules: Click on the security group to view its inbound and outbound rules.

  6. Edit Rules: To make the rules stateful or stateless, you will need to edit the existing rules.

  7. Update Rule: For each rule, determine whether it needs to be stateful or stateless. Stateless rules do not keep track of the state of the connection, while stateful rules keep track of the state of the connection.

  8. Edit Inbound Rules:

    • To make a rule stateful: Click on the “Edit inbound rules” button, then edit the rule and ensure the “Stateful” option is selected.
    • To make a rule stateless: Click on the “Edit inbound rules” button, then edit the rule and ensure the “Stateless” option is selected.
  9. Edit Outbound Rules:

    • Repeat the same process for outbound rules if necessary.
  10. Review and Save Changes: Review the changes you have made to ensure that the rules are now either stateful or stateless as required. Click on the “Save rules” or “Apply changes” button to save the updated rules.

  11. Verify Changes: Verify that the changes have been applied successfully by testing the network connectivity to and from the EC2 instance.

By following these steps, you can remediate the network firewall rule groups to be either stateless or stateful for AWS EC2 using the AWS console.