Application Load Balancer deletion protection should be enabled

[dsotirho-ucsc]

{
    "GeneratorIds": [
        "aws-foundational-security-best-practices/v/1.0.0/ELB.6"
    ]
}

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/securityhub-standards-fsbp-controls.html#fsbp-elb-6

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• [ ] Security design review completed; the Resolution of this issue does not …
  • [ ] … affect authentication; for example:
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  • Authentication with a GitLab instance in the system
  • Password and 2FA authentication with GitHub
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  • Authentication with
  • [ ] … affect the permissions of internal users like access to
  • Cloud resources on AWS and GCP
  • GitLab repositories, projects and groups, administration
  • an EC2 instance via SSH
  • GitHub issues, pull requests, commits, commit statuses, wikis, repositories, organizations
  • [ ] … affect the permissions of external users like access to
  • TDR snapshots
  • [ ] … affect permissions of service or bot accounts
  • Cloud resources on AWS and GCP
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  • adding, removing or changing a log message that represents an auditable event
  • changing the routing of log messages through the system
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  • [ ] … introduce a new software dependency like
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  • [ ] … add an interface that exposes sensitive or confidential data at the security boundary
  • [ ] … affect the encryption of data at rest
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  • [ ] … affect the network security layer; for example by
  • modifying, adding or removing firewall rules
  • modifying, adding or removing security groups
  • changing or adding a port a service, proxy or load balancer listens on
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[hannes-ucsc]

No point in doing this. If an ALB gets accidentally deleted, it can be quickly recreated by redeploying the affected Azul deployment, or component.

[dsotirho-ucsc]

Marking ticket won't fix based on the previous comment.