Data masking is one of the ways to protect confidential information from unauthorized use. When masking, data is replaced either with arbitrary symbols or (more often) with fictitious data. The array ...

Data masking is an approach to data security used to conceal sensitive information. Unlike encryption, which renders data unusable until it is restored to clear text, masking is designed to protect ...

Data privacy regulations—coupled with the desire to pro­tect sensitive data—impose requirements on organizations to protect production data. Since many organizations rely on pro­duction data as a ...

Sensitive data is a part of every large organization’s normal business practice. Allowing sensitive data from production applications to be copied and used for development and testing environments ...

Nearly every IT person has seen it at some point: a test bed populated with real, sometimes business-sensitive, data just waiting to fall into the wrong hands. "It's so easy to just make a copy -- and ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Protegrity, a global leader in data security, today announced the release of the latest version of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform. Version 8.1 of Protegrity’s ...

Data masking tackles security issues head-on by tweaking data's actual digits and letters, maintaining confidentiality. It alters data values while preserving the original format, creating a ...

Data privacy regulations, the continuing onslaught of data breaches, and the desire to protect sensitive data all work together to expand the requirements on organizations to protect their sensitive ...

Data masking is a security and data privacy technique that obscures or anonymizes specific data elements within a database, application, or file. Its primary purpose is to protect sensitive ...

Last week’s article covered the topic of protecting data in databases from the inside out. That is, watching every action involving data as it happens, and promptly halting improper actions. This week ...