Spoofing Realistic Credit Card Data for your Test Systems using Data Masker

Grant Fritchey shows how to use Data Masker to create fake credit card data that not only looks like the real thing, but also has the right distribution, so will act like it too, when we query it. Read more

Approaches to masking email addresses

Chris Unwin explains the basic approaches to anonymizing email addresses, and shows how Data Masker can generate realistic email addresses, based on faked names, and even retain the correct distribution of email providers. Read more

Masking Dates in a Non-Production Database

Gerry Leith explores what’s required for the effective masking of dates and times in your data. Read more

How to automatically provision sanitized data using SQL Clone, Data Masker and PowerShell

Chris Unwin describes a strategy, using data masking, cloned databases and PowerShell, which will allow you to sanitize data before provisioning test or development environments. Read more

Protecting production data in non-production environments

Grant Fritchey discusses the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production environment, and how SQL Provision can help you achieve this. Read more

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