Data Masking is an add on pack for Enterprise Manager. It allows you to meet data privacy and data protection mandates. It replaces sensitive values with realistic replacements. Thus you can use production like data for non-production uses.
Data Masking can actually scan for sensitive data. It can make sure sensitive data does not leave the production environment. Its operation is also called scrambling or anonymization. The scrubbing is based on rules that you set up or choose from some preset formats.
Here are the data type supported for scrubbing:
- Numeric
- String
- Date
- LOB (requires Grid 11gR1)
- Clone production to a staging environment
- Select mask definition in staging
- Clone the masked staging data to a test environment
- Credit card numbers
- ISBN numbers
- UPC codes
- Social Security Numbers
- Phone numbers
- Select catalog role
- Select any dictionary
- Execute privileges on DBMS_CRYPTO
- Clustered tables
- Object tables
- XML tables
- Virtual columns
- Bulk operations
- Disabled logging
- Running in parallel