Amazon Macie
Discover how to detect sensitive data in an S3 bucket using Amazon’s Macie service.
Amazon Macie is a security service provided by Amazon that uses machine learning models to monitor data to detect risks and provides automated protection against those risks. Macie monitors our account’s S3 buckets, evaluates their access level and potential security risks, and checks for sensitive data in S3 objects.
When Macie detects a potential risk, finds a bucket that is publically accessible or detects sensitive data in an object, it generates a finding, which contains the details of the sensitive data Macie detects or other security issues in S3 buckets. There are two categories of findings generated by Amazon Macie:
Sensitive data finding: This finding includes data about the sensitive information Macie detects in S3 objects.
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