Hiding What You Shouldn’t See
In this week's SImple Talk editorial Kathi Kellenberger looks at data that should be hidden and how to get security right within your organization.
2019-09-04
data masking
Data Masker For Oracle 6 is here
Introducing a new user interface, enhancements and new features, you can now try the latest version of Data Masker for Oracle. Deliver production like data to development teams while ensuring that confidential data remains protected.
2019-04-26
Complimentary access to Gartner Guide
Redgate has been acknowledged as a representative vendor in the Gartner 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking. For Gartner’s insights, analysis and recommendations on data masking you can get your complimentary copy of the report from Redgate.
2019-03-28 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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Benefits of Data Masking highlighted in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide
Gartner released their 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking, providing an in-depth analysis of the market with recommendations and representative vendors – including Redgate. Gartner says that "Test data (or copy data) virtualization is a technology that is increasingly popular, when used in combination with SDM (Static Data Masking), to speed up the provisioning of and updates to target environments, in addition to significantly reducing the amount of storage required by these environments.”
2019-03-08
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Redgate acknowledged as a representative vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking
Data masking really has come of age. Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking has just been published and predicts that the global enterprise use of data masking (DM) or similar de-identification techniques will rise to 40%, an increase from 15% in 2017. And Redgate is acknowledged in the Guide as a representative vendor for Data Masking.
2018-11-27 (first published: 2018-10-30)
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Questions about Data Masking That You Were Too Shy to Ask
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in effect in May of 2018. Data masking is one technique that can help your organization comply with this and other regulations. William Brewer answers those questions about data masking that you were too shy to ask.
2018-01-05
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Masking your on-premise database with SQL Data Mask
In the last update from Redgate Foundry three weeks ago, they announced their intention to build a version of SQL Data Mask that would mask on-premise SQL Server databases, as well as Azure SQL Databases. They're pleased to say this version of the prototype is now available - here are the details.
2017-05-24
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SQL Data Mask: now featuring configurable masks
SQL Data Mask is the latest prototype to come out of Redgate Foundry. It copies your database while anonymizing personal data, and you can use it to mask your databases right now, free of charge. Here are the details.
2017-05-10
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Basic data masking for development work using SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator
This article describes a lightweight copy-and-generate approach for making a sanitized version of a production database available to development teams with SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator.
2017-05-08
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6 shades of masking your data
The Redgate Foundry team have been researching data masking, and have found that generally speaking there's six common approaches. In this blog post, Toby Smyth runs through all six.
2017-04-24
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