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Add Description For Security Group

LOW
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-AWS-0049
cloudformation terraform

Missing description for security group/security group rule.

Security groups and security group rules should include a description for auditing purposes. Simplifies auditing, debugging, and managing security groups.

Impact

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Add descriptions for all security groups and rules

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Resources:
  GoodExample:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup
    Properties:
      Description: Some description

Add descriptions for all security groups and rules

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resource "aws_elasticache_security_group" "good_example" {
  description = "something"
}
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