Learning objectives

Get to know SmallID and understand how it works with AWS environment. During this session, participants will explore how smallID provides a solution to:

  • Discover, classify, and catalog data under your care
  • Identify sensitive and at-risk data and documents
  • Practice effective data governance and security

Workshop structure

Module 1 - Autodiscovery

  • Use AWS autodiscovery to onboard AWS Data sources in SmallID
  • Scan data at AWS account scale.
  • Understand results of your first scan
  • Challenge #1 - find credit card information in S3 buckets

Module 2 - Scanning RDS

  • Explore SmallID Connectors capabilities
  • Initiate scans and review results
  • Challenge #2 - find cleartext password in databases

Going Further

  • Leverage Sensitivity classifcation to get risk insights about your data
  • Use saved queries to transform technical queries into business queries
  • Leverage Users and policies to get alerted and take actions on new findings