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Open Cassandra Monitoring

HIGH

Source

CloudSploit

open-cassandra-monitoring

management console

Open Cassandra Monitoring

Determine if TCP port 7199 for Cassandra Monitoring is open to the public

While some ports such as HTTP and HTTPS are required to be open to the public to function properly, more sensitive services such as Cassandra Client should be restricted to known IP addresses.

Recommended Actions

Restrict TCP port 7199 to known IP addresses

Links

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/authorizing-access-to-an-instance.html

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