Why did GuardDuty report the finding HIDDEN_DUE_TO_SECURITY_REASONS?
Last updated: 2020-01-31
Amazon GuardDuty findings or AWS CloudTrail logs display the user name as "HIDDEN_DUE_TO_SECURITY_REASONS".
Resolution
Successful and failed sign-in attempts to the AWS Management Console are logged in CloudTrail logs. As a security best practice, AWS does not log the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user name for sign-in failures that occur due to an incorrect user name. The user name text shows a GuardDuty finding or CloudTrail log entry as "HIDDEN_DUE_TO_SECURITY_REASONS", similar to the following sign-in failure event log example.
For more information, see Logging User Sign-in Events.
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