Enterprises today face the regulatory challenge of ensuring the privacy and security of their customers’ information while still successfully conducting their daily business activities. However, organizations often copy and move sensitive data containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) information from the security of their production environments to less secure testing environments or for third-party use, which can pose security risks. Prior to being copied to these environments, this sensitive data need to be identified and masked, to ensure individual privacy and meet regulatory compliance standards (PCI-DSS, GLBA, OSFI/PIPEDA, HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR). Unlike data encryption, data masking makes data unrecognizable while preserving its format, so it is still usable.
Accutive Security Data Discovery and Accutive Security Data Masking solutions provide the abilityto locate, mask, and move your critical sensitive data, while ensuring the data properties and fields remain intact across any number of sources. After being processed through the masking operation, the data will still look real, but in truth, it will have become fictitious. Additionally, the masked data will also remain consistent throughout all sources. For example, Joe Smith masked as John Doe will always be John Doe in System A, System B, etc. Masking production data for non-production environment uses will reduce the risk of data compromise, while meeting regulatory requirements.
