In today’s digital world, data rules. Yet information must remain confidential to have any value in a business context. Customer data, financial records, and intellectual property are susceptible to cyber threats. As a result, reinforcing security is a must for organizations that want to keep their reputation. This is where data masking comes in.
What Is Data Masking?
Data masking is commonly known as data obfuscation or data anonymization. It is a way to conceal or protect sensitive information in a database or other data storage systems. Instead of using the original data, data masking replaces it with fictional or scrambled data. It retains the format and appearance of the original, but it has no intrinsic value.
