Data Masking Software Reviews

What is Data Masking Software?

Data masking is also known as data obfuscation process, used to hide the original data with some random characters.

The key reason to apply masking to the data field is to prevent the data which is being classified as personal identifiable or confidential data, personal sensitive information, although data should be usable for undertaking all the valid test cycles. It should also look real or consistent. It is common to apply masking process to the data which is represented outside of the corporate system. It is basically a common practice to take the data from production systems to fill the data elements, needed for non-production environments. Although this practice is not restricted to any non-production environments. Sometimes, the data which appears on terminal screens might have masking applied depending on the user security permissions.

Benefits:-

• It preserves the look and feel for the existing data effectively.
• It efficiently deals with large data.
• It is most useful in those circumstances where data is not needed.

Features:-

• Effectively allows to use large amount of data
• Quickly and easily applicable to numeric data
• It is useful in the situation for visor data