Data Masking

Data masking is the process of obscuring (masking) specific data elements within data stores. It ensures that sensitive data is replaced with realistic but not real data. The goal is that sensitive customer information is not available outside of the authorized environment.

Data masking is typically done while provisioning non-production environments so that copies created to support test and development processes are not exposing sensitive information and thus avoiding risks of leaking.

Portus provides functionality which allows you to select fields whose content you do not wish to divulge.

This masking takes place as the data flows through Portus, therefore is masked "in-flight". The data sitting on the back-end database is not changed in any way.

Almost 40 different algorithms are provided which you can use to maintain data integrity. The algorithms include generate a random email address, create a hash value, generate random credit card numbers, random dates and times, and look up a list of seed values in an external database table.

This allows users to query your data secure in the knowledge that its real content remains unexposed.

Example

Employee Data without masking

<EMPLOYEE_ID>100</EMPLOYEE_ID>
<FIRST_NAME>Steven</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>King</LAST_NAME>
<EMAIL>SKING@SKING.COM</EMAIL>
<HIRE_DATE>2003-06-17</HIRE_DATE>
<SALARY>24000</SALARY>

Employee Data with masking

<EMPLOYEE_ID>100</EMPLOYEE_ID>
<FIRST_NAME>UKfaUAKuPFFAuPFap</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>PPupUpaAfUfkpuFkpFkkFfFa</LAST_NAME>
<EMAIL>VIJAY@SMITHS.COM</EMAIL>
<HIRE_DATE>2002-08-16</HIRE_DATE>
<SALARY>823999</SALARY>

Algorithms used are random text for FIRST_NAME and LAST_NAME, random email for EMAIL, random date for HIRE_DATE and random number between 0 and 999999 for SALARY.

To find out more about this feature please contact your sales area representative.


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