Borneo vs. Amazon Macie:

The Smarter Choice for AI-Powered Data Security

When it comes to securing your sensitive data, Borneo outperforms Amazon Macie with faster setup, real-time monitoring, AI-powered detection, and cost-effective governance—all in a single platform.

Borneo vs. Amazon Macie

Feature Comparison:

Amazon Macie
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Manually build all pipelines and integrations
Borneo in action
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All-in-one solution

Borneo vs. Amazon Macie

Feature Comparison:

Feature Amazon Macie Borneo (AI-Powered Security)
Single Pane of Glass for AWS + SaaS ❌ No ✅ Yes (Real-Time)
ML-Powered Data Classification ❌ No ✅ Yes (Client-Tuned)
Support for Unstructured Data ✅ Limited ✅ Extensive (Parquet, OCR, Bin, Logs)
Custom Dashboards & Automated Workflows ❌ Very Limited ✅ Yes (+ API Support)
Built-In Governance & Compliance Policies ❌ No ✅ Yes (Free)
Integration with SIEM & Internal Tools ❌ No ✅ Yes (Pre-Built, Free)

Why Choose Borneo Over Macie?

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Advanced AI-Powered Classification
Detect PII, PHI, API keys, credentials, and even dark data that Macie misses.
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Works Beyond AWS
Unlike Macie, which is AWS-only, Borneo secures both AWS and SaaS environments in real time.
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Enterprise-Ready Compliance & Insights
Pre-built governance policies, reporting dashboards, and SIEM integrations out of the box.

What Powers Borneo's Detection Service?

  • ML-powered pre-tuned data classifiers for Pll, PFI, PHl, API tokens, keys, credentials.Our advanced algorithms can also detect dark data, or unknown infotypes.

  • Support for structured, unstructured data sources, logs, parquet, bin, archive files, and OCR for images.

  • Scan across code repositories, log files, config files, templates,and other unexpected locations across your SaaS applications, and Aws data infrastructure

  • Add any new infotypes specific to your business without having to write a single line of code
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Borneo vs. Amazon Macie

Setup & Workflow Comparison

Parameter Manual AWS Macie Setup Borneo (Fully Automated)
Total Deployment Time ⏳ 2–4 weeks 🚀 <2 days
Cost 💰 High ($$$$) ✅ Low ($$)
Implementation Steps
1. Data Export (RDS to S3) ⚙️ 1–2 weeks (manual setup) ✅ Install Borneo (<1 hour)
2. Scanning & Storage 🏗️ Start Macie scans (manual effort) ✅ Add RDS credentials (5–10 min)
3. Query Results 📊 Create Athena tables (1–2 hours) ✅ Setup Slack alerts (5–10 min)
4. Data Visualization 📉 Use QuickSight (2–5 hours) ✅ Scans start automatically (real-time)
5. Ongoing Maintenance 🔄 Manual QuickSight refresh ✅ No extra effort
6. Dashboards & Reports 📝 Manually generated (2–3 hours each) ✅ Pre-built reports (automated)
7. Compliance Reports 📋 Manual effort (2–3 hours) ✅ Auto-download (PCI-ready)
8. Real-Time Alerts 🔧 Develop custom Lambda function (1–2 weeks) ✅ Pre-configured Slack alerts

Save weeks of effort. Cut costs. Get real-time insights.

With Borneo, security teams can achieve 10x efficiency without increasing headcount.

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“Borneo solves the data visibility and proactive privacy management problem, allowing for confident security-informed decision making, visibility and proactive remediation across the enterprise.

 

Chris McCann, CISO, Chainlink,

Advisor, Borneo

Chris

“Borneo provides us with real-time data security along with privacy data intelligence so our data teams can keep innovating without worrying about data leaks, misuse, or mishandling.

 

Himanshu Jha, Lead - Data Analytics and Data Science,

Circles.Life

Himanshu

“We are always looking for innovative security products that can scale as we grow and don’t require constant babysitting. My team could deploy Borneo with ease and show instant value in 30 mins.

 

Shreyas Kumar, CISO,

Deserve

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