AWS Macie

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Macie Summary

• Macie is a data security/privacy service.

• Uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to discover, classify and protect sensitive information stored in S3.

• Can automatically discover Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in your data and can alert you once identified.

• Can produce dashboards, reporting and alerts

Benefits of Macie

• Cost efficiently discovers sensitive data at scale

• Constant visibility of data security/privacy through alerts and dashboards

• Can use used across AWS accounts through AWS Organisations.

• Can help you meet regulatory compliance

• Great for PCI-DSS(credit card payments) and preventing theft