XDM / Agile Test Data

An important feature of XDM is its ability to mask and sensitive private information as is required by many industry and governmental regulations and privacy laws (such as GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and others). When moving a copy of production data into a development or test environment, that data is no longer protected by the controls that are in place in the production environment.

Therefore, sensitive data such as names, addresses, credit card details, medical records, and so on, must be altered to avoid exposing it to programmers and testers. Protecting sensitive data can be accomplished using the in-depth data masking and de-identification capabilities of XDM.

There are many built-in masking methods provided by XDM, including mapping values using lookup tables, shuffling existing values, and masking values using hashing. You can choose from dozens of pre-installed masking algorithms that ship with XDM or simply plug in your own. You can use XDM’s PII Finder to automatically detect columns containing personally identifiable information (PII) and then you can specify the masking rules for the columns found; XDM will apply the masking. XDM allows you to mask sensitive and confidential corporate information during data transport, as well as in-place.