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SOA-C02 · Question #375

A company has a compliance requirement that no security groups can allow SSH ports to be open to all IP addresses. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution that will notify the company's SysOp

The correct answer is C. Activate the AWS Config restricted-ssh managed rule. Add automatic remediation to the AWS. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/restricted-ssh.html

Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 30, 2026Security and Compliance

Question

A company has a compliance requirement that no security groups can allow SSH ports to be open to all IP addresses. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution that will notify the company's SysOps team when a security group rule violates this requirement. The solution also must remediate the security group rule automatically. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule that invokes an AWS Lambda
  • BCreate an AWS CloudTrail metric filter for security group changes. Create an Amazon
  • CActivate the AWS Config restricted-ssh managed rule. Add automatic remediation to the AWS
  • DCreate an AWS CloudTrail metric filter for security group changes. Create an Amazon

How the community answered

(60 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    8% (5)
  • C
    72% (43)
  • D
    17% (10)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/restricted-ssh.html

Topics

#AWS Config managed rules#security group compliance#auto-remediation#SSH port restriction

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