Macie

Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.

Identifiers

Findings

• Uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover, monitor, and help you protect your sensitive data on Amazon S3

• Macie enables security compliance and preventive security as follows:

  • Identify a variety of data types, including PII, Protected Health Information (PHI), regulatory documents, API keys, and secret keys

  • Identify changes to policy and access control lists

  • Continuously monitor the security posture of Amazon S3

  • Generate security findings that you can view using the Macie console, AWS Security Hub, or Amazon EventBridge

  • Manage multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations