Data masking is one of the ways to protect confidential information from unauthorized use. When masking, data is replaced either with arbitrary symbols or (more often) with fictitious data. The array ...

Contentious conversations about masking are seemingly everywhere, from school board meetings to grocery stores, to public health and medical discourse. Calls for policy changes have intensified as ...

With one exception, every gold standard study of masks in community settings has failed to find that they slow the spread of contagious respiratory diseases. The outlier is a widely cited study run in ...

Sensitive data is a part of every large organization’s normal business practice. Allowing sensitive data from production applications to be copied and used for development and testing environments ...

Data privacy regulations—coupled with the desire to pro­tect sensitive data—impose requirements on organizations to protect production data. Since many organizations rely on pro­duction data as a ...

Data masking tackles security issues head-on by tweaking data's actual digits and letters, maintaining confidentiality. It alters data values while preserving the original format, creating a ...

Rick: Just as a point of interest, how much masking is currently going on in schools? Nat: Thirty-nine percent of students were required to mask under district mandates in our latest wave of data, ...