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Ensure that Deletion Protection safety feature is enabled for your Amazon VPC network firewalls.

networkfirewall_deletion_protection

Severitymedium
by Prowler

Ensure that Deletion Protection safety feature is enabled for your Amazon VPC network firewalls in order to protect the firewalls from being accidentally deleted. By default, Deletion Protection is disabled for VPC network firewalls.

Risk

Without a network firewall, it can be difficult to monitor and control traffic within the VPC. This can make it harder to detect and prevent attacks or unauthorized access to resources.

Run this check with Prowler CLI

prowler aws --checks networkfirewall_deletion_protection

Run in Prowler Cloud

ARN template

arn:partition:network-firewall::account-id:firewall/firewall-name

Remediation

CLI

aws network-firewall update-firewall-delete-protection --region <value> --firewall-name <value> --delete-protection

WUI

Ensure that Deletion Protection safety feature is enabled for your Amazon VPC network firewalls.

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References

Resource Type

AwsNetworkFirewallFirewall

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