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Tag: Macie
Use Amazon Macie for automatic, continual, and cost-effective discovery of sensitive data in S3
Customers have an increasing need to collect, store, and process data within their AWS environments for application modernization, reporting, and predictive analytics. AWS Well-Architected security pillar, general data privacy and compliance regulations require that you appropriately identify and secure sensitive information. Knowing where your data is allows you to implement the appropriate security controls which […]
Best practices for setting up Amazon Macie with AWS Organizations
In this post, we’ll walk through the best practices to implement before you enable Amazon Macie across all of your AWS accounts within AWS Organizations. Amazon Macie is a data classification and data protection service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to help secure your critical data in AWS. To do this, Macie first […]
Learn more about the new allow list feature in Macie
Updated on September 7, 2022: This post had been updated to correct the allow list in Macie. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and help you protect your sensitive data in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The data that is available […]
Use Security Hub custom actions to remediate S3 resources based on Macie discovery results
The amount of data available to be collected, stored and processed within an organization’s AWS environment can grow rapidly and exponentially. This increases the operational complexity and the need to identify and protect sensitive data. If your security teams need to review and remediate security risks manually, it would either take a large team or […]
Classify sensitive data in your environment using Amazon Macie
June 15, 2020: This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-amazon-macie-now-available/ 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 […]
Now Available: New Digital Training to Help You Learn About AWS Cloud Security
Cloud security with scalability and innovation: at AWS, this is our top priority. To help you securely architect cloud solutions, AWS Training and Certification recently added new free digital training about security, including a new course about Amazon GuardDuty, a new managed threat-detection service. These introductory courses, built by AWS experts, are suitable for users and decision makers […]