ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your company is deploying an EC2-hosted REST API behind an Application Load Balancer. The security team insists that only encrypted web traffic be accepted from the internet, while unencrypted HTTP and all other management protocols must remain blocked. Which inbound rule should be added to the application's security group to meet this requirement?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) uses TCP port 443 by convention and relies on TLS to encrypt the session. Allowing TCP traffic on port 443 enables secure web communication while continuing to block unencrypted HTTP (TCP 80), alternative web ports such as 8443, and UDP-based traffic (even if it targets port 443). Therefore, the correct inbound rule is TCP port 443.
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