This is an extremely useful feature as it captures any errors generated by an API call that CloudTrail has then captured, such as an AccessDenied response. This could be a sure sign that someone is trying to access something that they shouldn’t be and could be the sign of a potential security attack or breach. There are many different errors that Amazon Macie looks for, which are assigned a risk value between 1 and 10 (10 being the highest risk). The following screenshot shows some of these errors:
Using the preceding example of AccessDenied, you can see this carries the highest risk factor of 10.
All of the results of the classification types and PII and data risk values, along with any potential security problems found, are presented in a series of graphs and tables accessed via the Amazon Macie dashboard, which can be drilled down into to find further information. If you then couple this information with the ability to configure alerts for Amazon...
