Amazon Macie - Getting Started

Amazon Macie is a data security service that uses machine learning (ML) and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data. Macie provides visibility into data security risks and supports automated protection against those risks. This fundamental course will help you understand key concepts, use cases, and architecture.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, videos, and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Understand the fundamentals of Macie
• Identify common use cases
• Understand how Amazon Macie works at an architectural level

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Security engineers, security analysts, security operations, and security DevOps.
  

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• A fundamental understanding of the AWS Cloud and the security services available to secure your cloud.
• Completed the AWS Security Fundamentals Second Edition digital course on AWS Skill Builder.

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Amazon Macie

• Benefits of Amazon Macie
• Demo – Activating your Amazon Macie Account
• Demo – Loading data into Amazon S3
• Demo – Checking Amazon Macie Costs

Module 2: Amazon Macie Architecture

• Architecting solutions overview with S3 and Security Hub

Module 3: Amazon Macie Use Cases

• Discover sensitive data for compliance
• Protect sensitive data during migration
• Increase visibility for business-critical data
• Demo – Creating a Data Discovery Job with Amazon Macie
• Demo – Activating Automated Sensitive Data Discovery
• Demo – Exploring Sample Findings with Macie