
AWS Firewall Manager now detects overly permissive Security Group rules allowing traffic from all IP ranges (0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0) to improve security auditing and compliance management.


<div><p>This article announces an enhancement to AWS Firewall Manager that improves auditing capabilities for Security Groups by detecting excessively permissive firewall rules.</p><ul><li>Identifies overly permissive rules allowing traffic from all IP ranges (0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0)</li><li>Uses Security Group Content Audit policy to detect and remediate problematic CIDRs</li><li>Simplifies security posture management by automating detection of common risky IP ranges</li><li>AWS Firewall Manager centrally manages firewall rules across AWS Organizations</li><li>Supports WAF, Shield Advanced, Network Firewall, Route 53 DNS Firewall, and VPC security groups</li></ul><p>This enhancement helps organizations more easily identify and fix overly permissive security group configurations across their AWS infrastructure.</p></div>


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