Friday, March 18, 2016

Data Masking for Oracle or MSSQL

Vendors (like hotels & now airlines) love their add-ons.  Oracle offers a data masking service for a decent charge, while Microsoft offers a native, dynamic data masking (DDM) service for contemporary versions of MSSQL.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/data-masking-subsetting/overview/ds-security-dms-2245926.pdf?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-dynamic-data-masking-get-started/

http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/An-introduction-to-SQL-Server-2016-dynamic-data-masking

Why not trim the strings at the application-side & go from there?  Ohh, you need an identifier.  How about using a tokenization service (e.g., Vormetric, SafeNet) and a more comprehensive crypto / KMS strategy?


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