Thursday, August 17, 2017

Sensitive Data Masking With MariaDB MaxScale

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Sensitive Data Masking With MariaDB MaxScale

Protecting personal and sensitive data and complying with security and privacy regulations is a high priority for organizations. This includes personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), payment card information (subject to PCI-DSS regulation), and intellectual property (subject to ITAR and EAR regulations). In many cases, if not most, it needs to be redacted or masked when accessed (internally and/or externally).

Data redaction obfuscates all or part of the data, reducing unnecessary exposure of sensitive data while at the same time maintaining its usability. Various terms such as data masking, data obfuscation, and data anonymization are used to describe this functionality in databases. Data redaction allows an organization to:

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