An organization wants a centralized, automated method across all accounts in AWS Organizations to detect security groups that permit inbound traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 and to automatically remediate violations by replacing that wide-open source with the company's approved intranet CIDR. What actions should a SysOps administrator implement to achieve this?
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Correct answer: Deploy an AWS Config rule that flags security groups using 0.0.0.0/0 and configure automatic remediation to replace that source with the approved CIDR block..
Why this is the answer
AWS Config is designed for continuous monitoring and automatic remediation of resource configurations across multiple accounts in AWS Organizations. A custom Config rule can be deployed to detect security groups with inbound rules from 0.0.0.0/0. Config's remediation actions can then be configured to automatically modify these rules, replacing 0.0.0.0/0 with the specified intranet CIDR block, ensuring compliance. An IAM policy denying creation of security groups with 0.0.0.0/0 would prevent new insecure groups but wouldn't remediate existing ones and is not a centralized, automated remediation solution. A Lambda function could scan and remediate, but AWS Config provides a more integrated and managed service for this specific use case, including multi-account deployment. An SCP can block creation but cannot perform automatic remediation of existing resources or modify rules.
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