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Your security groups should have descriptions associated with them to help you run your operations smoothly. It serves as a documentation and guidance in future.

Risk Level

Informational

Address

Operational Maturity

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration of security groups not having descriptions in AWS, you can follow the below steps:

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to the EC2 service.
  3. Click on the “Security Groups” option from the left-hand menu.
  4. Identify the security group(s) that do not have descriptions.
  5. Click on the checkbox next to the security group(s) to select it.
  6. Click on the “Actions” dropdown menu and select “Edit description”.
  7. Enter a meaningful description for the security group.
  8. Click on the “Save” button to save the description.

Repeat the above steps for all the security groups that do not have descriptions. It is recommended to have a clear and concise description for each security group, which can help in identifying the purpose of the security group and its associated resources.

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