SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...

Redgate is releasing another update for its Data Masker for SQL Server tool, making it much easier for users to identify the best data masking rules to fit their needs. Alongside the 15 updates that ...

You wouldn’t ship code without version control or deploy without CI/CD. So why would you handle sensitive test data without masking? Most IT teams build pipelines ...

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 ...

Data masking tackles security issues head-on by tweaking data's actual digits and letters, maintaining confidentiality. It alters data values while preserving the original format, creating a ...

As enterprises expand into a multi-cloud ecosystem, the need for role-based data masking is growing exponentially. IT leaders can future-proof their organization by adopting the latest data masking ...

Nearly every IT person has seen it at some point: a test bed populated with real, sometimes business-sensitive, data just waiting to fall into the wrong hands. "It's so easy to just make a copy -- and ...