Limit The Access Of Documents To Certain Users

The documents are vital things for a business or an organization. All the information is saved in different formats. The personal and commercial details are kept safe in the private files. Data masking is a process in which original data is hidden in the form of random characters or data. There are different kinds of data masking popular in the software industry. Each of the techniques involves adoption of some minor and major implementations of security levels by developers. The users opt for the masking method based on the need of the business.

The masking of documents with various techniques

The data is safe and secure with the adoption of techniques of data masking. These data can be personally sensitive data, personal identifiable data and commercially sensitive data. Any breach in the security can destroy the full business and the properties associated. The techniques adopted in data masking are following:-

● Substitution- It is one of the most effective data masking in use. The masking is performed in such a manner that the existing value can be substituted by another authentic value.
● Shuffling- It is a very common form of data obfuscation. Here, the data are shuffled within the column. 
● Number and data variance- This method is very useful in financial data driven information fields. 
● Encryption- It is a complex approach to solve the problems of data masking. 
● Nulling out or delete- In this method a null value applied to a particular field.
● Masking out- It is an effective method of data masking. It is commonly applied credit card data.

A different form of data masking with effective results

Dynamic data masking is very popular masking method, in which there is no need of a second data source like On-The-Fly data masking. In This masking happens at runtime, dynamically and on-demand. In dynamic data masking method, there is no requirement of changes in the database or the application layer. The key benefits of this masking method are following:-

● There is no requirement of off-line or duplicate database.
● The access to production and non-production databases are prevented.
● Real data activities are performed by saving time.
● Easy installation is possible
● The best choice for developers
● Implementation of column based masking method.