Gartner
recently announced that Oracle
Data Masking Pack, part of Oracle Enterprise Manager’s quality
management and Oracle Database Security defense-in-depth solution, has
been named a leader in the first Magic
Quadrant for Data Masking Technology report. Oracle Data Masking
strengths highlighted in the report include: - High performance
data masking in Oracle Databases
- Integration into Oracle
Enterprise Manager 12c resulting in easy adoption
- Availability of
pre-built templates for popular packaged systems such as, Oracle E-Business
Suite
- Database security
expertise and strong DBMS security portfolio
About Oracle
Data Masking
Oracle Data Masking ensures privacy by transforming sensitive data before
it is transferred to test, QA, and other non-production environments,
addressing regulatory compliance for both Oracle and non-Oracle Databases. ![]()
Oracle Data Masking Pack: Production data is cloned
and masked before being copied to Test.
Key Features: - Application data
discovery
- Centralized extensible
format library
- Comprehensive mask
techniques
- High performance
masking with role-based security
- Optimized for Oracle
and non-Oracle databases
- Integrated with
Oracle testing products
- Integrated with
data subsetting
Oracle Data Masking
completely replaces sensitive information such as; names, account numbers,
SSNs, financial results, purchasing transactions, etc. in your development,
test and QA systems with data that cannot be “reverse engineered”
to reveal its original source. This allows production data to be safely
used for development, testing, or sharing with out-source or off-shore
partners for other non-production purposes. The Pack provides extensive
search capabilities to scan enterprise databases for sensitive
data discovery based on established data patterns and models. The solution allows
masking of all the related data elements automatically while preserving
referential relationships combining the sensitive data columns and associated
relationships in an Application Data Model. Oracle Data Masking can detect
data dependencies, such as foreign key constraints and replaces sensitive
information transparently. This ensures that the referential integrity
necessary for applications to work and function properly will continue
be in place, even on development systems. Benefits: - Administrators
will save time and eliminate risk by replacing individual scripts and
routines written by DBAs with centrally managed and deployed libraries
of masking processes.
- Provides secure,
scalable and automated solution to create test environments from production
data using bulk masking.The
solution enables faster time-to-market by speeding up the development
process while helping organizations comply with privacy regulations
and confidentiality policies.
- Enables rapid DBA
productivity through the use of application masking templates.
- Supports custom
data masks that are defined once and can be used every time that set
of data needs to be masked.
- Data security is
integrated within the application management lifecycle, meaning that
DBAs can provide realistic-masked production data to developers or testing
groups for accurate application testing while reducing their storage
costs by not having to provision an entire production environment for
each developer or project.
- Oracle Data Masking
Pack is built into and installed with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
Data Masking
for Security and Compliance
Oracle Data Masking offers a comprehensive and customizable library of
masking formats, templates and policies that can be used to replace sensitive
information with realistic simulated values—all with just a few
mouse clicks. The sensitive data never has to leave the Oracle Database
or the production environment. This maintains data security and compliance
through privacy and confidentiality polices on shared production data.
The solution helps protect against unauthorized access to data that is
being shared with off-shore developers, partners or 3rd party vendors. ![]()
Oracle Data Masking Pack: Centralized Extensible
Format Library.
In addition, Oracle
Data Masking allows organizations to enforce compliance with regulatory
requirements such as; Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as well
as numerous other laws and regulations that restrict the use of actual
customer data. Oracle Data Masking
continues to gain strong adoption, check out the latest customers to see
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