What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on SEC07-BP03 Automate identification and classification?

Macie job schedule and findings; Automated tagging Lambda; Discovery coverage metrics.

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar · Data Protection

`SEC07-BP03` Automate identification and classification

Use Macie, Glue, Comprehend and lifecycle automation to continuously discover and classify data without relying on manual surveys.

Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC07-BP03. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

moderate

to go live

Data governance / DLP tooling

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

Discovery coverage metrics · Data governance / DLP tooling

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Macie job schedule and findings · Data governance / DLP tooling

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Automated tagging Lambda · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 3 artefacts that already live in a system (Data governance / DLP tooling); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Macie disabled or unfunded
manual annual classification only
new data stores undiscovered

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

Build my evidence sheet

SEC07-BP02 Apply data protection controls based on data sensitivity · SEC07-BP04 Define scalable data lifecycle management