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 ...

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HACKENSACK, N.J., Aug. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paperclip, Inc. (PCPJ) announced today that its SAFE® searchable encryption solution now provides data masking. SAFE is the only data security ...

Explore data sanitization techniques and discover how proper sanitization improves test accuracy, protects privacy, and supports secure software development.

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 ...

Hyperconscious of the cloud’s need to appear secure by design, Microsoft announced new encryption and data-protection features today for Azure SQL Database. Microsoft not only wants to encrypt data at ...

This past November, federal investigators cracked the largest identity theft ring yet, a scheme that stole credit histories of 30,000 people from the computer systems of credit agencies, resulting in ...

Sensitive data is a part of every large organization’s normal business practice. Allowing sensitive data from production applications to be copied and used for development and testing environments ...