Protecting sensitive data with data masking
Safeguarding sensitive data is a top priority when managing vast amounts of information, especially in Salesforce environments. Data masking has emerged as a vital technique to address privacy, compliance, security, and confidentiality concerns that come with handling sensitive data in test and development environments.
Understanding data masking
Data masking, also called data obfuscation or anonymization, protects sensitive details by replacing, encrypting, or altering the original data with modified, fictional versions. This retains the utility of the data for testing needs while eliminating the risks of exposing sensitive information.
Common data masking approaches include the following:
- Static data masking (SDM): Masking the data at rest before transfer to testing environments
- Dynamic data masking (DDM): Real-time masking as the data is accessed
- Format-preserving encryption (FPE): Encrypting data while retaining...
