Tag: Amazon Macie

AWS Security Hub is a security and compliance service that became generally available on June 25, 2019. It provides you with extensive visibility into your security and compliance status across multiple AWS accounts, in a single dashboard per region. The service helps you monitor critical settings to ensure that your AWS accounts remain secure, allowing […]

Amazon Macie is a security service that makes it easy for you to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Macie collects AWS CloudTrail events and Amazon S3 metadata such as permissions and content classification. In this post, I’ll show you how to use Amazon Macie to create custom […]

In this post, I’ll show you how to create a sample dataset for Amazon Macie, and how you can use Amazon Macie to implement data-centric compliance and security analytics in your Amazon S3 environment. I’ll also dive into the different kinds of credentials, document types, and PII detections supported by Macie. First, I’ll walk through […]

Today, I’m very pleased to announce that AWS services comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that, in addition to benefiting from all of the measures that AWS already takes to maintain services security, customers can deploy AWS services as a key part of their GDPR compliance plans. This announcement confirms we […]

At AWS re:Invent 2017, the AWS Compliance team participated in excellent engagements with AWS customers about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including discussions that generated helpful input. Today, I am announcing resulting enhancements to our recently launched GDPR Center and the release of a new whitepaper, Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS. The resources available […]