Security Group Naming Conventions

01 Sign in to your Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account, access Security Group Naming Conventions conformity rule settings and identify the custom pattern defined for naming your security groups.

02 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

03 Navigate to Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

04 In the main navigation panel, under Network & Security, choose Security Groups.

05 Select the EC2 security group that you want to examine.

06 Choose the Tags tab from the console bottom panel to access the tag sets defined for the selected security group.

07 In the Tags section, check the Name tag value defined for the selected resource, listed in the Value column. If the EC2 security group is not using a naming convention that follows the well-defined custom pattern identified at step no. 1 or the one based on the Conformity default pattern (i.e. ^security-group-(ue1|uw1|uw2|ew1|ec1|an1|an2|as1|as2|se1)-(d|t|s|p)-([a-z0-9\-]+)), the naming structure of selected Amazon EC2 security group does not follow the AWS cloud naming convention and tagging best practices.

08 Repeat steps no. 5 – 7 for each EC2 security group available within the current AWS region.

09 Change the AWS cloud region from the console navigation bar and repeat the Audit process for other regions.

01 Sign in to your Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account, access Security Group Naming Conventions conformity rule settings and identify the custom pattern defined for naming your security groups.

02 Run describe-security-groups command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) with custom query filters to list the IDs of the Amazon EC2 security groups available in the selected AWS cloud region:

aws ec2 describe-security-groups
  --region us-east-1
  --output table
  --query 'SecurityGroups[*].GroupId'

03 The command output should return a table with the requested security group IDs:

--------------------------
| DescribeSecurityGroups |
+------------------------+
|  sg-01234abcd1234abcd  |
|  sg-0abcd1234abcd1234  |
+------------------------+

04 Run describe-security-groups command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the ID of the Amazon EC2 security group that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom query filters to describe the tag sets defined for the selected resource:

aws ec2 describe-security-groups
  --region us-east-1
  --group-ids sg-01234abcd1234abcd
  --output table
  --query 'SecurityGroups[*].Tags'

05 The command output should return the requested tagging information:

------------------------------------
|      DescribeSecurityGroups      |
+------+---------------------------+
| Key  |           Value           |
+------+---------------------------+
| Name |  cc-prod-security-group   |
+------+---------------------------+

06 Repeat steps no. 4 and 5 for each EC2 security group available in the selected AWS region.

07 Change the AWS cloud region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat the Audit process for other regions.

01 CloudFormation template (JSON):

{
	"AWSTemplateFormatVersion":"2010-09-09",
	"Description":"Apply EC2 Security Group Naming Convention",
	"Resources":{
	"CustomSecurityGroup" : {
			"Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
			"Properties" : {
				"GroupDescription" : "Production Security Group",
				"GroupName" : "cc-tomcat-security-group",
				"VpcId" : "vpc-1234abcd",
				"Tags" : [ {
					"Key" : "Name",
					"Value" : "security-group-us-east-1-p-tomcat"
				} ]
			}
		}
	}
}

02 CloudFormation template (YAML):

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
    Description: Apply EC2 Security Group Naming Convention
    Resources:
        CustomSecurityGroup:
        Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
        Properties:
            GroupDescription: Production Security Group
            GroupName: cc-tomcat-security-group
            VpcId: vpc-1234abcd
            Tags:
            - Key: Name
                Value: security-group-us-east-1-p-tomcat

01 Terraform configuration file (.tf):

terraform {
	required_providers {
		aws = {
			source  = "hashicorp/aws"
			version = "~> 3.27"
		}
	}

	required_version = ">= 0.14.9"
}

provider "aws" {
	profile = "default"
	region  = "us-east-1"
}

resource "aws_security_group" "web-security-group" {
	name        = "cc-tomcat-security-group"
	description = "Production Security Group"
	vpc_id      = "vpc-1234abcd"

	# Apply EC2 Security Group Naming Convention
	tags = {
		Name = "Name"
		Value = "security-group-us-east-1-p-tomcat"
	}

}

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

03 In the main navigation panel, under Network & Security, choose Security Groups.

04 Select the EC2 security group that you want to reconfigure.

05 Select the Tags tab from the console bottom panel and choose Manage tags.

06 In the Manage tags configuration section, add or change the Name tag value by performing the following operations:

1. If the selected EC2 security group does not have a Name tag defined yet, provide one:
   • Choose Add new tag to create a new tag set.
   • In the Key box, type Name as the key name.
   • In the Value – optional box, enter a value for the Name tag. The Name tag value must follow the Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity default pattern, e.g. security-group-us-east-1-p-tomcat.
2. If the selected EC2 security group does have a Name tag already defined, change the tag value available in the Value – optional box with one that follows the Conformity recommended (default) pattern.
3. Choose Save changesto apply the changes.

07 Repeat steps 4 – 6 to retag other EC2 security groups that require a valid naming convention, available within the current AWS region.

08 Change the AWS cloud region from the console navigation bar and repeat the Remediation process for other regions.

01 Run create-tags command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the Amazon EC2 security group that you want to reconfigure (retag) as the identifier parameter, to add or overwrite the Name tag value for the selected resource. The following command example adds/overwrites the Name tag value of an EC2 security group with the ID "i-01234abcd1234abcd". The tag value used, i.e. security-group-us-east-1-p-tomcat, follows a well-defined naming convention based on the Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity recommended pattern (if successful, the command does not produce an output):

aws ec2 create-tags
  --region us-east-1
  --resources sg-01234abcd1234abcd
  --tags Key=Name,Value=security-group-us-east-1-p-tomcat

02 Repeat step no. 1 to retag other EC2 security groups that require a valid naming convention, available in the selected AWS region.

03 Change the AWS cloud region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat the Remediation process for other regions.