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Using Multi-Cloud Automation Rules to detect PHI / PII / SPI data

As companies undergo Digital Transformation they increasingly hold more and more sensitive information. Such information can take many forms including, but not limited too, Protected Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and Sensitive Personal Information (SPI).

Sensitive information such as this can be securely managed by the Enterprise File Fabric™ by combining Content Discovery and Data Automation rules to perform specific actions when new files are added to the File Fabric. The File Fabric facilitates this through the use of metadata. Metadata is data that provides information about other data.

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Using AWS Lambda to Automatically Sync Metadata With S3 Events

Lambda Metadata syncThe Enterprise File Fabric indexes Amazon S3 metadata to provide a number of enhanced file services over S3 object storage including reading/browsing and searching. The File Fabric has its own indexing engine to provide these services.

Applications may update/upload/delete objects through the File Fabric or in a bi-modal fashion directly through S3 APIs. When objects are updated directly using S3 APIs the File Fabric metadata must also be updated. There are a number of ways that the metadata can be updated:

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Meta-data Sync and Re-Sync Optimizations in v1906 of the Enterprise File Fabric

The File Fabric has two main modes of operation with regard to knowing what files are on a storage provider: cached mode and real-time mode.  In cached mode the File Fabric maintains, in its database, metadata about each file on the underlying storage.  As files are created, updated and deleted, the changes flow through the File Fabric and the File Fabric updates its metadata accordingly.

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