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Protect sensitive data with Amazon Macie - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Essential Training for Administrators
Protect sensitive data with Amazon Macie
- [Instructor] One of the most common misconfigurations that occur in the AWS Cloud is misconfigured S3 buckets. S3 buckets can contain images, videos, sensitive files, application logs, and even database backups. As you can imagine, for large organizations that use S3 as an object storage service, it can be an challenge to ensure that sensitive data is not publicly exposed and buckets are not incorrectly configured. AWS has a service called Amazon Macie that automatically discovers sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information, personal health information, and financial data stored in your S3 buckets. It does so using managed data identifiers, which are pre-configured patterns and criteria used to detect sensitive data types for many countries and regions. With Macie you can also define custom data identifiers using regular expressions. A regular expression is a text pattern that you'd like to match.…
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