Failed Authentications Report

Monitor, Detect, and Investigate Failed Login Attempts Across Your Organization.

The Failed Authentications Report provides a centralized, real-time view of all failed login attempts across users, devices, and applications monitored by Zaperon. It captures each failed event with full context including the user identity, device, location, failure reason, and timestamp, giving security teams the visibility they need to detect suspicious authentication patterns and respond before unauthorized access is achieved.

This report surfaces failure reasons such as incorrect username, email passcode mismatch, MFA code mismatch, account locked, and device mismatch, enabling administrators to quickly distinguish between genuine user errors and coordinated attack activity targeting the organization.

The Failed Authentications Report is a real-time log of every failed login attempt recorded by Zaperon across all monitored users and applications. It captures the exact failure reason alongside user identity, device type, IP address, location, and timestamp, giving administrators complete context to investigate individual events or identify patterns indicative of a broader attack.

In a Zero Trust security framework, authentication failures are not just user errors — they are security signals. Zaperon treats every failed authentication event as a potential threat indicator and the Failed Authentications Report gives administrators the tools to investigate, correlate, and act on these signals before they escalate into a confirmed breach.

• Early Attack Detection: Identify brute-force attacks, credential stuffing, and unauthorized access attempts by monitoring spikes in failed authentication events across users and applications

• Granular Failure Context: Every failed event includes the exact failure reason, helping administrators distinguish between user error and malicious activity instantly

• User and Device Visibility: See which users and devices are generating failed authentication events, including device type, IP address, and geographic location

• Account Compromise Investigation: Investigate failed login patterns associated with specific user accounts to determine whether credentials have been compromised or targeted

• MFA Effectiveness Monitoring: Track MFA-related failure reasons such as MFA code mismatch to assess whether multi-factor authentication is functioning correctly and being bypassed

• Compliance Readiness: Maintain a complete, auditable record of all failed authentication events to support security audits and regulatory compliance requirements

• Detecting Brute-Force and Credential Stuffing Attacks

A sudden spike in failed authentication attempts against one or multiple user accounts is a strong indicator of a brute-force or credential stuffing attack. The Failed Authentications Report surfaces these patterns in real time, enabling security teams to lock affected accounts and strengthen access policies before unauthorized access is achieved.

• Investigating Compromised or Targeted Accounts

When a specific user account shows repeated failed login attempts from unfamiliar devices or locations, it may indicate that credentials have been compromised or are being actively targeted. The report gives administrators the full event history needed to assess the risk and take appropriate action including forcing a password reset or revoking active sessions.

• Identifying Device Mismatch and Unauthorized Device Access

Failed events with a device mismatch reason indicate that a login attempt was made from a device that does not match the user's registered or approved devices. This may signal an unauthorized access attempt using stolen credentials on an unrecognized device, requiring immediate investigation.

• Monitoring MFA Failures and Bypass Attempts

Repeated MFA code mismatch failures may indicate that an attacker has obtained a user's primary credentials and is attempting to bypass multi-factor authentication. The Failed Authentications Report helps security teams detect these patterns early and take action to protect affected accounts.

• Supporting Compliance and Security Audits

Regulators and auditors often require evidence that failed authentication attempts are monitored and investigated. The Failed Authentications Report provides a complete, timestamped, and filterable record of all failed login events, supporting audit readiness across frameworks including GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, RBI, and SEBI.

To ensure failed authentication events appear in this report:

• Users must be onboarded using Standard Onboarding or Pre-Provisioned Onboarding

• Applications must be configured under Manage Applications

• Zero Trust Access Policies must be active and enforced under Manage Zero Trust Access Policies

• The Zaperon agent or connector must be installed and communicating on user devices

Note: The report displays failed authentication data for the last 24 hours by default. Use the filter dropdown to view data for weekly or monthly periods.

• Ensure your Zaperon account has the necessary permissions to access the Reports section

• Identify the user, device, location, or failure reason you want to investigate before applying filters

• If investigating a potential attack, cross-reference with the Application Activity Report for correlated access events

• If exporting failed authentication data for compliance or SIEM integration, confirm the required date range before downloading

Note: Use the filter dropdown to view data for the last 24 hours, weekly, or monthly periods. Zaperon retains device compliance data for up to 6 months.

Download failed authentication logs for security investigations, compliance reviews, or offline analysis. Use Export CSV on the Failed Authentications page to select a time range and export the report. 

Exported data can be used for incident response, compliance audits, or SIEM integrations. → Refer to Exporting a Report.

The Failed Authentications Report gives security teams real-time visibility into every failed login attempt across the organization, surfacing the user, device, location, and exact failure reason for each event. By enabling early detection of brute-force attacks, credential compromise, and unauthorized access attempts, Zaperon ensures that authentication failures are never invisible and that security teams can act on these signals before they become confirmed breaches.