Tag: Sensitive data

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 […]

In this post, we’ll walk through the best practices to implement before you enable HAQM Macie across all of your AWS accounts within AWS Organizations. HAQM 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 […]

Updated on September 7, 2022: This post had been updated to correct the allow list in Macie. HAQM 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 HAQM Web Services (AWS). The data that is available […]

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to detect when unintended access has been granted to sensitive data in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) buckets in your HAQM Web Services (AWS) accounts. It’s critical for your enterprise to understand where sensitive data is stored in your organization and how and why it is shared. […]