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November 3, 2024
Sensitive Data Discovery: Finding the Hidden Needles
Sensitive data discovery is the process of identifying, classifying, and masking PII, conducted by companies to ensure compliance with data privacy laws.
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Data Masking Requirements for 2025 and Beyond
Data masking requirements are key to protecting PII and other sensitive data stored by your company to ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
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Data masking use cases span GenAI and employee training, as well as data testing, compliance, security, sharing, governance, analytics, and migration.
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October 1, 2024
Unstructured Data Masking: More Effective via Business Entities
Conventional data masking tools can't process or analyze unstructured data because there's no predefined data model. Modern entity-based data masking can.
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Sensitive Data Discovery Tools Make Order out of Chaos
Sensitive data discovery tools automatically scan vast data stores to locate and classify confidential information like PII for compliance and security.
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September 13, 2024
Oracle Data Masking: Benefits, Barriers, and Beyond
Oracle data masking hides sensitive data in its own non-production databases using realistic fake data, to help protect privacy and reduce storage costs.
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September 9, 2024
Delphix Competitors and the 12 Pitfalls of Data Virtualization
Delphix Test Data Management is fine for some, but those with complex data environments should beware the 12 pitfalls of data virtualization.
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April 21, 2024
TDM Solutions for 2025: Bloor Research Rates K2tdm as “Powerful”
K2view TDM solutions validated for reducing test data provisioning delays, eliminating manual data masking, and simplifying complex test environment setups.
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What is PII Masking?
PII masking is the process of hiding any personally identifiable information in order to protect individual identities and comply with data privacy laws.
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January 31, 2024
Data Masking Tools List for 2025
If you’re in the market for a data masking tool to protect PII and enforce compliance with data privacy regulations, check out this list before deciding.
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January 16, 2024
Static vs Dynamic Data Masking: Permanent vs Real-Time Data Protection
Static data masking obscures data permanently, while dynamic masking hides data on the fly, A data product platform runs either, depending on the use case.
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January 7, 2024
Data Masking Tools Comparison for 2025: Top Vendor Pros and Cons
Here’s a comparison of the top data masking tools on the market, and what you should know when evaluating different vendors.
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RAG Chatbot: What’s it All a Bot?
RAG chatbots are AI-powered apps that combine retrieval and generation models to provide more accurate and relevant responses than traditional chatbots.
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Data Masking Tools for SQL Server: What, Why, and How?
Data masking tools for SQL Server are software solutions that automatically discover and mask any sensitive data found in Microsoft SQL Server databases.
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December 18, 2023
Free Data Masking Tools – Really?
Protecting PII and sensitive data with free data masking tools may be tempting, but there are major risks involved. Here’s what you need to know.
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December 7, 2023
Data Masking Tools: Gartner Perspectives
Here’s a free high-level synopsis of Gartner’s Market Guide for Data Masking to familiarize data pros with the available technologies and latest use cases.
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December 6, 2023
Open-Source Data Masking Tools: Can You Afford to Go Cheap?
Study the benefits and risks of open-source data masking tools vs commercial solutions for both static and dynamic data masking.
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Top Test Data Management Trends for 2025
Discover the top 7 test data management trends for 2025, and how a business entity approach to test data management can leverage them quickly and easily.
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November 22, 2023
SAP Test Data Management Tools: Use Cases, Challenges and Solutions
Managing test data for SAP can be challenging. Learn about the ideal test data management approach for SAP systems.
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November 21, 2023
Test Data Management Tools Comparison: A Market Breakdown
This test data management tools comparison overviews the companies and software platforms available on the market and examines the pros and cons for each.
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Test Data Management Tools List for 2025
Looking for a test data management tool to accelerate software delivery? This list offers an overview of the different solutions available on the market.
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November 15, 2023
Test Data Management Tools: Gartner Insights
Here’s a free executive summary of Gartner’s latest report on Test Data Management (TDM) for Software Engineering.
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November 2, 2023
Free Test Data Management Tools? NOT!
While there are free tools that perform certain functions of test data management (masking and synthetic data generation), there are no free TDM tools.
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November 1, 2023
Open-Source Tools: NOT for Enterprises
Thinking of using an open-source tool? Think again. Here’s why open source isn’t a viable option for enterprise-grade test data management.
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October 22, 2023
Test Data Provisioning: DIY via Test Data Products
Learn about a revolutionary way to provision test data that’s impacting how enterprises structure their dev/QA teams and totally changing how testers work.
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October 17, 2023
Top Test Data Management Tools: This Year's Picks
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September 14, 2023
Data Subsetting Optimizes Software Testing
Learn why software developers prefer smaller, more representative subsets of data for testing, validating, and preparing applications for production use.
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September 5, 2023
What is Test Data Automation?
Test data automation is the process of automatically delivering test data to lower environments, as requested by software and quality engineering teams.
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July 3, 2023
Data Obfuscation: What You Need to Know
Hiding in plain sight: Data obfuscation disguises sensitive data by hiding its true meaning to protect it from unauthorized access, breaches, or misuse.
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June 29, 2023
Complying with Today’s Data Anonymization Standards
Data anonymization standards are guidelines that ensure that personal or sensitive information cannot be re-identified, to protect an individual’s privacy.
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June 27, 2023
Top 5 Data Anonymization Companies in 2024
Data anonymization hides or removes PII from datasets to comply with privacy laws. Here’s what look out for when evaluating different vendors and tools.
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June 26, 2023
The Best Types of Data Anonymization for My Organization
The best type of data anonymization – generalization, suppression, pseudonymization, data swapping, or perturbation – depends on the needs of the company.
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June 7, 2023
Pseudonymization vs Encryption: Understanding the Differences
Pseudonymization and encryption are both approved techniques for protecting data privacy, however where the former anonymizes data, the latter locks it up.
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June 4, 2023
Data Anonymization vs Encryption: What You Need to Know
Data anonymization and encryption are 2 separate approaches to protecting personal information and complying with data privacy laws, like GDPR and CPRA.
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June 1, 2023
Confused by De-Identification vs Pseudonymization?
Confusing de-identification with pseudonymization can put personal or sensitive data at risk, create a false sense of security, and endanger compliance.
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May 30, 2023
Pseudonymization vs Tokenization: Benefits and Differences
Pseudonymization and tokenization are two popular, but distinct, methods of data protection that are cornerstones in any company’s data privacy toolkit.
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May 17, 2023
Test Data Best Practices: Sweet 16
Test data best practices are guidelines to ensure that all generated test data is accurate, compliant, and relevant – for more effective software testing.
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May 14, 2023
Data Anonymization vs Data Masking: Definitions and Use Cases
Data anonymization erases classified, personal, or sensitive information from datasets, while data masking replaces confidential data with altered values.
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May 14, 2023
What is Data De-Identification, and Why do I Need it?
Data de-identification is a data masking method that severs the connection between data and the person associated with it, to ensure privacy compliance.
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May 2, 2023
Do I Really Have to Anonymize Data?
Companies anonymize data to ensure that private information remains that way. How important is it to anonymize data, and what happens if you don’t?
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May 2, 2023
Generate Fake Data to Conserve Resources and Enhance Results
Fake data – computer-generated synthetic data that emulates the characteristics of real-life datasets – ensures data privacy for testing/training purposes.
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April 23, 2023
The L Diversity Data Anonymization Model: Extending K Anonymity
L Diversity reduces the risk of re-identification of sensitive data by ensuring that individual records in a dataset are not too similar to each another.
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April 18, 2023
Pseudonymization vs Anonymization: Which to Use When
Data privacy laws have made pseudonymization or anonymization a requirement for data processing, access, and security. But which is best for your needs?
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April 18, 2023
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Pseudonymized Data
Pseudonymized data replaces PII with artificial identifiers that deter unauthorized access or disclosure. Examine the pros and cons of this technique here.
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April 18, 2023
Re-Identification of Anonymized Data: What You Need to Know
Re-identification of anonymized data occurs when an individual can be identified by linking masked data with public records or combined personal attributes.
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April 16, 2023
Data Anonymization Techniques: 12 Keys to Compliance
Data anonymization techniques modify data so that it can’t be linked to a specific person, while preserving its analytical and operational functionality.
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March 29, 2023
Informatica Cloud Test Data Management: Critical Concerns
Informatica released its end-of-life schedule for its on-prem TDM, leaving users with no choice but to migrate to its cloud-based solution, or find a new one....
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March 8, 2023
How to Choose the Right Data Anonymization Tools
Data anonymization tools safeguard the privacy of a dataset’s subjects. Select the best tool for your organization according on your data anonymization use...
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February 26, 2023
Advantages and Disadvantages of Anonymized Data
What is anonymized data, and why do enterprises require it? Learn about its key types, benefits, challenges, and a new approach based on business entities.
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February 23, 2023
How a Synthetic Dataset Augments and Protects Data for Analytics
Huge amounts of data are often needed to train AI/ML models. A synthetic dataset is used not only to augment actual data, but also to protect data privacy.
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February 19, 2023
Data Masking Solutions: Choosing the Right One
With so many data masking solutions out there, it's hard to know which is best for you. Understanding the use cases, risks, and features helps you decide.
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February 16, 2023
What is Synthetic Data?
Synthetic data is lifelike fake data used to secure personal privacy, test apps before they’re released, train ML models, and validate high-scale systems.
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February 1, 2023
Data Masking Methods Matched to Use Cases
Different use cases call for different data masking methods. Learn about some of the most important data masking methods, as well as when to use each.
Data Masking
January 29, 2023
Data Masking Examples from the Real World
Masking personal data is a great way to protect it, while ensuring its functionality. Learn about the most common data masking examples and use cases here.
Data Masking
December 21, 2022
Data Masking Software: What's best for You?
What are the most essential features to look for in data masking software? Read about the use cases, capabilities, vendors, and approaches to consider.
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December 6, 2022
Data Tokenization vs Masking – Why, Where, and When
Data tokenization and masking protect personal information and enable compliance. Learn where and when to employ each – and how business entities can help.
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December 6, 2022
Masking Data: 6 Reasons Why
Masking data, the process of anonymizing personal information with non-sensitive values, is key to ensuring data security and compliancy with privacy laws.
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November 24, 2022
Data Masking Vendors: Top Picks for 2025
With so many data masking vendors in the industry, finding the right one for your company can be challenging. Here’s what to look for in your evaluations.
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November 14, 2022
Synthetic Data Creation: 8 Must-Have Features
Learn the value of synthetic data creation, and what key features to look for when evaluating the different solutions currently available on the market.
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November 2, 2022
Synthetic Test Data: Critical for Software Testing
Discover the key benefits of synthetic test data, and why it makes sense to include it among the test data management tools at your immediate disposal.
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October 13, 2022
Data Masking Standard – Aim for the Highest
For global enterprises, complying with privacy laws is a daunting task. Learn how to simplify compliance, by aiming for the highest data masking standard.
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September 19, 2022
Dynamic Data Masking: Why You Need It
Dynamic data masking is a data masking technique that limits the exposure of personal or sensitive data by anonymizing it for all non-authorized users..
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September 13, 2022
Types of Data Masking and Key Feature Requirements – Buyer's Checklist
When evaluating a data masking tool, make sure it handles all types of data masking, and includes certain key features. Read on for the complete checklist, and...
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September 6, 2022
Test Data Masking vs Synthetic Test Data – What’s Best, and Why
To support continuous development, most enterprises rely on test data masking. But more and more are realizing the value in synthetic test data. Learn why.
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August 24, 2022
Data Masking vs Encryption: What You Need to Know
Data masking vs encryption: Here’s a rundown on how they both work, what they’re used for, and how to determine the best solution for your business.
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July 20, 2022
Data Masking Techniques: Which Suit You?
For many companies, data masking is the best way to ensure data security and compliance, but which techniques are best for your business?
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July 10, 2022
Data Masking Best Practices
Assure data protection with 5 data masking best practices: Identify PII, choose the right technique, test it, secure it, and ensure relational integrity. Table...
Data Masking
June 27, 2022
Data Masking vs Tokenization – Where and When to Use Which
Data masking and tokenization are used to protect sensitive data. Discover where and when to use each – and how a business entity approach optimizes both....
Data Tokenization
June 13, 2022
Reducing Cybersecurity Risk with Data Tokenization Solutions
Learn why data tokenization is a top data compliance/protection method, and how a business entity approach optimizes its impact, in this webinar synopsis.
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