This guide emphasizes the importance of data classification for cloud security, highlighting its role in ransomware defense, data governance, and compliance. It explains how classification works using methods like regular expressions, machine learning, and data validation. The guide also covers the effectiveness of classification engines, stressing accuracy, flexibility, and affordability. Finally, it discusses the operationalization of classification through automation and benchmarks Open Raven’s classification engine against AWS Macie, showcasing its precision and reliability.

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