Data Masking
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Data masking is a security solution that significantly reduces the chances of sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.
Axis Technology's proprietary data masking technique depersonalizes and de-identifies data while maintaining its referential integrity and freshness. Business and development processes experience minimal to no impact as a result, while risk of exposure is significantly reduced.
Challenges
Sensitive data from the production environment is exposed through several channels.
- Application Development: Offshore, third-party, and internal developers and testers use all kinds of sensitive data to develop new applications, perform system integration, and test application and system functionality.
- Production Break-Fix: In an emergency, a trusted application developer needs live production data to be sure application functionality is restored.
- Production Operations: Production data feeds which include customer sensitive information are commonly shared between business units/partners who do not need to know who the customer is.
Solution
The Axis Data Masking Solution not only protects sensitive data in non-production systems, but also improves data quality and maintains its integrity for testing and development purposes.
Our solution emphasizes automation for sustainability within your organization, and includes knowledge transfer from our team to yours. It includes three components:
A proprietary product by Axis Technology, LLC. This sophisticated yet flexible product includes powerful features and algorithms that allow rapid implementation at the business-unit level and the scalability for enterprise requirements. Learn more.
Process
Our proprietary, repeatable, and proven process is derived from the Axis Methodology. It provides:
- Automated analysis followed by manual validation
- Presentations tailored to different audiences, from executives to developers
- Customized version of our detailed Process Guide ("cookbook")
- Audit and compliance preparation
- Setting, measuring, and monitoring of tolerances
Expertise
Our pioneering teams have masked data in highly complex and varied systems.
Top Ten Benefits
The Axis Data Masking Solution, powered by our proprietary DMsuite product, enables your organization to:
1. Leverage outsourcing and international partners more effectively
2. Demonstrate good corporate governance by complying better with international, federal, and state laws
3. Create an extensive inventory and documentation of the environment’s data structure, access, access control, batch integration, data provisioning process, etc
4. Discover opportunities to streamline test systems and data
5. Map how integrated systems receive data from various sources
6. Save on disk space and other operational overhead
7. Standardize and refine processes that refresh test environments
8. Determine clear ownership of test systems and environments
9. Reduce the time required for issue resolution by vendors
10. Get more robust environments