#1 most frequent
United States of America
55.4%361 installations of 652
What is Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting?
Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting is designed to help database customers improve security, accelerate compliance, and reduce IT costs by sanitizing copies of production data for testing, development, and other activities and by discarding unnecessary data.
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Who Buys & Uses Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting
#2 most frequent
India
5.4%35 installations of 652
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.2%34 installations of 652
Our initial experience with Oracle Data Masking Tool
Pros
- It offers several ways in which you can mask your data; for example, you can choose to replace all names with "real fake names", or choose to replace all SSNs with existing SSNs, but randomly assigned. You control the algorithm.
- It works on non-Oracle databases as well (in our case, we use it for both Oracle and SQL/Server).
- The overhead is minimal (it doesn't take long to run, and it doesn't consume too many system resources.
Cons
- The learning curve was not trivial - but we got through it.
- Cost - this product is not cheap.
Return on Investment
- We have many compliance regulations we need to adhere to. Without this tool, we were always taking a risk of exposing client information, and get penalized by the State of the Feds (the financial consequences are significant).
- So while the tool doesn't save us money directly, it greatly reduces the risk we had been taking all these years. To some degree, this is much like an insurance policy.
- Given the above, it also allows us to share information with other departments/agencies, in situations where before we simply couldn't take the risk of exposing client information.
Other Software Used
Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle Data Integrator
