Ensure CloudWatch Alarms exist for unauthorized API calls
CloudWatch alarms should alert on unauthorized API calls indicating potential security incidents.
Security Impact
Without monitoring, unauthorized access attempts may go undetected.
How to Remediate
Create metric filter for AccessDenied errors and configure alarm threshold.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-cloudwatch-4
- Service
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Category
- Monitoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CIS Benchmark
- 4.1
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