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Control enterprise risk with patented data protection solutions that safeguard your data and take care of your organization's compliance needs. Mask sensitive data across your organization to satisfy the compliance requirements of HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, FERPA, GDPR, and more.
What Is Data Masking?
Data masking is a trusted data protection method that hides sensitive information by replacing real values of identifiable data elements with substitute “realistic” values. These realistic values will often maintain the original rules of the elements, such as when the Luhn algorithm is used to verify or check the length of credit card or social security numbers.
Data Masking For GDPR Compliance
Considered the most comprehensive data privacy law in effect, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires the use of data protection methods to safeguard private data. Data masking allows organizations to maintain the convenience of using their customers' data while removing any real identifiers. Using data masking, the data can be de-identified, so that personal information remains anonymous in the context of support, analytics, testing, or outsourcing.
GDPR Data Masking meets the criteria of several provisions including:
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the processing of data
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the parameters of de-identification
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the retention of data
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processing that does not require identification
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the deletion of data
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the responsibility of the controller
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reasonable measures to protect consumer data, by default and by design
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the security of processing
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protection measures to mitigate data breaches
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the codes of conduct of pseudonymization
