💼 SC-7(4) External Telecommunications Services (M)(H)

• Contextual name: 💼 SC-7(4) External Telecommunications Services (M)(H)
• ID: /frameworks/fedramp-high-security-controls/sc/07/04
• Located in: 💼 SC-7 Boundary Protection (L)(M)(H)

Description

(a) Implement a managed interface for each external telecommunication service;

(b) Establish a traffic flow policy for each managed interface;

(c) Protect the confidentiality and integrity of the information being transmitted across each interface;

(d) Document each exception to the traffic flow policy with a supporting mission or business need and duration of that need;

(e) Review exceptions to the traffic flow policy [FedRAMP Assignment: at least every one hundred and eighty (180) days or whenever there is a change in the threat environment that warrants a review of the exceptions] and remove exceptions that are no longer supported by an explicit mission or business need;

(f) Prevent unauthorized exchange of control plane traffic with external networks;

(g) Publish information to enable remote networks to detect unauthorized control plane traffic from internal networks; and

(h) Filter unauthorized control plane traffic from external networks.

Similar

• Sections
  • /frameworks/nist-sp-800-53-r5/sc/07/04
• Internal
  • ID: dec-c-daae8c98

Similar Sections (Take Policies From)

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags
💼 NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 → 💼 SC-7(4) Boundary Protection _ External Telecommunications Services			28

Similar Sections (Give Policies To)

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags
💼 FedRAMP Moderate Security Controls → 💼 SC-7(4) External Telecommunications Services (M)(H)			28

Sub Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags

Policies (28)

Policy	Logic Count	Flags
📝 AWS API Gateway REST API Stage is not configured to use an SSL certificate for authentication 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS CloudFront Web Distribution Cache Behaviors allow unencrypted traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS CloudFront Web Distribution uses default SSL/TLS certificate 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS CloudFront Web Distribution uses Dedicated IP for SSL 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS CloudFront Web Distribution uses outdated SSL protocols with Custom Origins 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS DMS Endpoint doesn't use SSL 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS DMS Replication Instance is publicly accessible 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EBS Snapshot is publicly accessible 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Auto Scaling Group behind ELB assigns public IP to instances 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Default Security Group does not restrict all traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Instance with an auto-assigned public IP address is in a default subnet 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows public IPv4 (0.0.0.0/0) access to admin ports 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows public IPv6 (::/0) access to admin ports 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted CIFS traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted FTP traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted RPC traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted SMTP traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted traffic to MSSQL 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted traffic to MySQL 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted traffic to PostgreSQL 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS EC2 Security Group allows unrestricted Telnet traffic 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS RDS Instance is publicly accessible and in an unrestricted public subnet 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS RDS Instance uses default endpoint port 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS RDS Snapshot is publicly accessible 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS S3 Bucket is not configured to block public access 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS S3 Bucket Policy is not set to deny HTTP requests 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS VPC is not configured with a VPC Endpoint for Amazon EC2 service 🟢	1	🟢 x6
📝 AWS VPC Subnet Map Public IP On Launch is enabled 🟢	1	🟢 x6