Cognito advanced security features are disabled

What this check finds

The user pool has AdvancedSecurityMode=OFF, so Cognito threat protection — compromised-credential detection and adaptive (risk-based) authentication — is not active. Sign-ins from known-leaked credentials or anomalous risk contexts are neither blocked nor logged.

Passing looks like: Cognito advanced security enabled.

How to fix it

Enable advanced security (set to AUDIT to monitor, or ENFORCED to block risky sign-ins). Note this requires the Cognito Plus feature plan. Cognito console → User pools → select pool → Sign-in experience → Threat protection.

Compliance controls it is evidence for

A failing result counts against these controls in KloudLytics; a passing one is evidence towards them. How compliance mapping works

Checked on every scan

KloudLytics runs this check each time it scans a connected AWS account, through a read-only role, and lists every affected resource with its region. On Pro and Business a fix is written for the specific resource rather than the general case above. The exact access it needs

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• MediumCognito user pool does not enforce MFA
• MediumCognito user pool has a weak password policy

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