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Persistent Data Masking

Permanently and irreversibly mask sensitive or confidential data in your nonproduction systems.

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Minimize Data Breaches, Maximize Test Data Quality, Protect Privacy

Informatica Persistent Data Masking is highly scalable, high-performance data masking software. It helps your IT organization manage access to your most sensitive data. Informatica Persistent Data Masking shields confidential data—such as credit card numbers, addresses, and phone numbers—from unintended exposure by creating realistic, de-identified data that can be shared safely internally or externally.

  • Reduce the risk of data breaches in nonproduction environments
  • Produce higher-quality test data and streamline development projects
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy mandates and regulations

Informatica Persistent Data Masking Key Features

Scalable Data Masking for Heterogeneous Applications

  • Supports data masking across many applications and databases—such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, Netezza, IMS, and VSAM—and platforms, including Windows, UNIX/Linux, and z/OS, making the process of persistent data masking more versatile
  • Controls data masking processes from a central environment with a multithreaded engine that handles
    large-volume data masking, vastly facilitating persistent data masking initiatives

Policy-driven Data Masking Support

  • Create reusable and repeatable data masking rules from a comprehensive set of data masking techniques including substitution, randomization, sequential, skewing, and nullification
  • Retains data field formats while masking the original data value, maintaining the functional appearance and integrity of masked data, providing users access to contextually rich yet de-identified data

Comprehensive Set of Application Accelerators

  • Provides prepackaged data masking rules for many packaged business applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel, enhancing productivity and expediting implementations
  • View, edit, and extend prepackaged data masking rules with ease, helping to ensure complete coverage of sensitive data

Broad Connectivity and Custom Application Support

  • Create data masking rules and standards that can be reused across all enterprise systems, streamlining the data masking process
  • Enables data privacy policies to be tailored to meet individual business requirements, producing ease of adoption and quick rollouts

Services & Training

Informatica offers a full range of services and training to help you maximize the value of the Informatica Platform in your environment.

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