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Using Amazon Macie to Discover PII

Amazon Macie is an advanced data security service provided by AWS, the primary goal of which is to help organizations discover, classify, and protect their sensitive data. Macie uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically identify and categorize sensitive data, such as PII, intellectual property, financial data, and more.

The primary function of Amazon Macie is to automate the process of finding sensitive data stored in your account, specifically in S3 buckets. The Macie service can do this even if the data has been encrypted while stored at rest provided that you grant the service permissions to the key(s) that are protecting the data.

Amazon Macie’s data classification capabilities can be combined with AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue to automatically redact sensitive data within files stored in Amazon S3 buckets once Amazon Macie has classified it. If your company is subject to regulations such as GDPR in Europe...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633982

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Adam Book

Adam Book has been programming since the age of six and has been constantly tapped by founders and CEOs as one of the pillars to start their online or cloud businesses. Adam has developed applications, and websites. He's been involved in cloud computing and datacenter transformation professionally since 1996 focusing on bringing the benefits of cloud computing to his clients. He's led technology teams in transformative changes such as the shift to programming in sprints, with Agile formats. Adam is a cloud evangelist with a track record of migrating thousands of applications to the cloud and guiding businesses in understanding cloud economics to create use cases and identify operating model gaps. He has been certified on AWS since 2014.
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Stuart Scott

Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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