Oracle Privacy Tool Targets Researchers

Software giant Oracle has launched a 'Data Masking Pack', to help organisations who share information with researchers and others, to hide confidential or sensitive data.

Removing the need for companies to manually conduct bulk masking operations, the firm says its new product enables regulatory compliance through the application of masking formats across enterprise-wide databases. It has been specifically designed to assist those businesses who share non-specific consumer information with market research firms, as well as for database administrators who copy production data into testing environments.

Richard Sarwal, Senior VP of Systems Management Products explained that these processes require most organisations to mask sensitive parts of their production data, and that using error-prone manual systems can lead to sensitive data being exposed to unauthorised users.

'With our new product, companies can now share data within and across company boundaries while addressing regulatory and privacy compliance,' he added.

The Pack contains a library that can support a variety of mask formats and needs only to be defined once. This helps ensure consistent enforcement of information security policies and allows organisations to share data quickly and scalably without violating privacy regulations.

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