Data masking is one of the ways to protect confidential information from unauthorized use. When masking, data is replaced either with arbitrary symbols or (more often) with fictitious data. The array ...

GUEST OPINION: Data is no longer restricted to a few controlled systems. It flows across environments, gets replicated for testing, shared with partners, and reused for analytics and AI initiatives.

Last week’s article covered the topic of protecting data in databases from the inside out. That is, watching every action involving data as it happens, and promptly halting improper actions. This week ...