Data Masking Guide

Outlines the concepts and procedures used by the Data Masking module. Data Masking makes sensitive data anonymous in application test environments while maintaining the same characteristics as the original data.

The Data Masking module comprises a mainframe engine and a client configuration tool. The mainframe engine reads and catalogs the original information, and stores it in the Knowledge Base.

Data Masking enables seamless access to supported rDBMSes, by providing the additional connectivity, infrastructure, and interfaces for this environment.

Data Masking processing comprises the following elements:

Setup processing that automatically identifies file layouts.
The association of routines with data elements to mask data and create the modified data stores.