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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 5: Data Protection

Sensitive data discovery and masking: Amazon Macie and CloudWatch Logs data protection policies

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You cannot protect sensitive data you do not know about. Personal data, card numbers and credentials often end up in unexpected buckets and logs. Amazon Macie finds such data in S3, and CloudWatch Logs data protection masks it in logs.

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