Voltage SecureData™ Masking

Data Masking and Data De-Identification for Test and Outsourced Environments

In order to achieve full PCI compliance, organizations must protect data in every system that uses credit card data. That means companies must address quality assurance, test, application development, and outsourced systems—not just production systems.

Voltage SecureData delivers a comprehensive solution for data encryption, de-identification, and masking that does not require costly and time-consuming data schema and data format changes in existing systems. Voltage SecureData Masking, an optional add-on - enables enterprises to ensure sensitive data is protected end-to-end: as it is collected, used, stored, and distributed to less controlled environments (e.g., test and development) regardless of infrastructure or application format requirements.

Key Features and Advantages

• Extending Protection to Non-Production Data
  Ensuring data privacy is the law in many regulated industries; however, protecting sensitive data is also good business practice. Leaking confidential customer, financial and employee data can lead to significant financial, legal and reputational losses.   The Voltage SecureData end-to-end data protection platform has always strongly enforced protection of sensitive customer data in production systems.  Today, the Voltage SecureData Masking solution delivers the same rigor for non-production test and development systems leveraging an extensible architecture and unique technology coupled with powerful tools for policy-driven, dynamic data masking and sub-setting.
  
• Policy-Driven Data Masking
  Traditional masking approaches leave too many decisions to be made at masking time thereby reducing effectiveness and increasing costs per application.  The Voltage SecureData Masking policy-based approach permits central test data generation on an enterprise basis so you set your data masking policies once and re-use them across multiple applications.
• “Ready-made Application Data Maps”
  Script-driven masking solutions require creating and managing complex scripts that become burdensome over time.  The Voltage SecureData Masking “ready-made application data maps” make masking data in off-the-shelf enterprise applications such as PeopleSoft and SAP fast and efficient. Data maps are also created for in-house applications – creating a knowledgebase of templates for fast-tracking masking projects and simplifying QA processes.
• Maintains data referential integrity across entire application
  Voltage SecureData Masking automatically maintains data integrity, logical and referential integrity in test data such as:
• Geographic relationships,
• Internal data structures, and
• Relationships across databases and within databases.  
  
  
• Single-step sub-setting for Efficient Test Data Management
  Test data is typically required by multiple test teams, QA teams and engineering groups – in-house and outsourced. To reduce data storage overhead while providing accurate test data for each party, Voltage SecureData Masking automates the generation of subsets.  This saves time by providing application owners with a repeatable single-step test data extract and mask process.
  
  
• Full Audit of Data Masking Lifecycle
  Voltage SecureData Masking ensures that the strict adherence to privacy regulations, such as PCI, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA/HITECH, is not only easy, but accountable through:
  
  
  • Centralized control and management,
  • Enforced separation of duties, and
  • Limited access to live production data until data is masked.