Oracle Announces Data Masking Pack

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Data Masking Pack, a new offering that helps customers protect sensitive data by replacing confidential or sensitive production information with realistic but scrubbed data based on masking rules. The Oracle Data Masking Pack is the newest addition to the Oracle Enterprise Manager family of database management packs.

“Providing a comprehensive management solution that spans applications, middleware, and database management is the foundation for Oracle Enterprise Manager’s top-down approach and with the Oracle Data Masking Pack, companies can now share data within and across company boundaries while addressing regulatory and privacy compliance,” said Richard Sarwal, senior vice president of Systems Management Products, Oracle. “Through the Pack’s innovative use of templates, which support application-aware masking definitions, customers can achieve greater IT efficiencies while reducing costs.”

The Oracle Data Masking Pack enables regulatory compliance through rule-based application of masking formats across enterprise-wide databases. The Pack claims to support an extensible format library that can support a variety of mask formats and needs only to be defined once.

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The Oracle Data Masking Pack also claims to enable independent software vendors and developers to develop and maintain Application Masking Templates that define the best-practices for masking application-specific data. This eliminates the need for customers to manually investigate, define and maintain the mask definitions for complex enterprise applications.