How Amazon CloudWatch Logs Data Protection can help detect and protect sensitive log data
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article provides an overview of how Amazon CloudWatch Logs Data Protection can be used to detect and protect sensitive log data to help meet compliance requirements for data privacy regulations.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview of CloudWatch Logs Data Protection
- How to enable CloudWatch Logs Data Protection at the log group or account level
- Configuring custom data identifiers for advanced use cases
- Verifying that sensitive data is masked in logs
- Viewing unmasked data with elevated privileges
- Defining CloudWatch alarms and notifications for detected sensitive data
- Viewing and reporting on sensitive data audit findings
- Conclusion highlighting the security benefits
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