Seeing how to protect data intelligently with Amazon Macie

Organizations that are either moving to the cloud or have established a cloud presence over the past few years start to quickly accumulate data. In Chapter 17, Advanced and Enterprise Logging Scenarios, we discussed the importance of having a good system for data hygiene that includes tagging and metadata. And although this is the optimal solution, this is not always possible. The data that you create, acquire, and accumulate can fall into a range of sensitivity and classification levels. Once you get past the public level, access to that data from those who were not authorized to access it could be classified as a breach:

Figure 22.2 – An example of data classification levels

Not every organization takes the time to classify and categorize the information stored in their cloud. This can lead to a number of vulnerabilities, both internal and external. From an internal point of view, allowing...