Amazon Macie | Data Analysis

Question 1

What can I do with Amazon Macie?

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Amazon Macie | Security, Identity & Compliance

Answer 1

You can use Amazon Macie to protect against security threats by continuously monitoring your data and account credentials. Amazon Macie gives you an automated and low touch way to discover and classify your business data. It provides controls via templated Lambda functions to revoke access or trigger password reset policies upon the discovery of suspicious behavior or unauthorized data access to entities or third-party applications. When alerts are generated, you can use Amazon Macie for incident response, using Amazon CloudWatch Events to swiftly take action to protect your data.

Question 2

What data sources does Amazon Macie support?

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Amazon Macie | Security, Identity & Compliance

Answer 2

The Amazon Macie service supports Amazon S3 and AWS CloudTrail. We plan to add support for user and content protection in customers Amazon EC2 environments (Windows, Linux, EBS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS, and AWS Glue in 2018.