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November 27, 2025

MongoDB data masking: Overcoming enterprise limitations

MongoDB data masking secures sensitive data in NoSQL databases for dev, test, analytics, and data sharing. See how it works.

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September 28, 2025

GDPR data masking: Shielding your company from privacy penalties

Implement GDPR data masking to protect personally identifiable information and ensure compliance. Learn the key techniques for safeguarding sensitive data.

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September 21, 2025

PII data discovery tools: Automated solutions for finding sensitive information

Organizations struggle to locate sensitive information spread across vast data stores, making automated PII data discovery tools essential for compliance.

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September 17, 2025

Mainframe data masking

Mainframe data masking protects PII and other sensitive data in legacy systems for software testing, analytics, GenAI data grounding, and B2B data sharing.

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August 20, 2025

Synthetic data in Workday: Protecting employee privacy

Maintain Workday data compliance with synthetic data that ensures employee privacy while enabling secure testing, analytics, and AI innovation.

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August 10, 2025

Workday data breach prevention – here and now

Discover the attack vectors that put employee data at risk and how a business entity approach to Workday data compliance secures PII across all systems. .

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July 8, 2025

Workday data masking: Why it’s hard and how to do it right

Learn all about the difficulties of Workday data masking, the risks it creates for enterprise data, and how K2view EDM addresses these unique challenges.

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June 5, 2025

DORA European regulations introduce new standards for data resilience

DORA European regulations are EU laws requiring financial and ICT firms to ensure the resilience, security, and integrity of their systems and data.

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April 9, 2025

Salesforce data masking: Why its native tools are NOT enough

K2view makes Salesforce data masking enterprise-ready by expanding its PII protection from self-contained sandboxes to complete production environments.

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January 9, 2025

Snowflake data masking: Overcoming the challenges with K2view

Snowflake data masking protects sensitive data by controlling access and masking at the column level. Learn how K2view data masking closes the gaps.

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November 3, 2024

Sensitive data discovery tools: Finding the hidden needles

Sensitive data discovery tools identify, classify, and mask PII and PHI, and are used by companies to ensure compliance with data privacy laws.

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October 18, 2024

Data masking requirements for 2025 and beyond

Data masking requirements are key to protecting PII and other sensitive data stored by your company to ensure compliance with data protection regulations.

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October 10, 2024

Data masking use cases: Top 9 for 2025

Data masking use cases span GenAI and employee training, as well as data testing, compliance, security, sharing, governance, analytics, and migration.

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October 1, 2024

Unstructured data masking: More effective via business entities

Conventional data masking tools can't process or analyze unstructured data because there's no predefined data model. Modern entity-based data masking can.

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September 23, 2024

Sensitive data discovery tools make order out of chaos

Sensitive data discovery tools automatically scan vast data stores to locate and classify confidential information like PII for compliance and security.

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September 13, 2024

Oracle Data Masking: Benefits, Barriers, and Beyond

Oracle data masking hides sensitive data in its own non-production databases using realistic fake data, to help protect privacy and reduce storage costs.

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February 6, 2024

What is PII masking?

PII masking is the process of hiding any personally identifiable information in order to protect individual identities and comply with data privacy laws.

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January 31, 2024

Data Masking Tools List for 2025

If you’re in the market for a data masking tool to protect PII and enforce compliance with data privacy regulations, check out this list before deciding.

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January 16, 2024

Static vs Dynamic Data Masking: Permanent vs Real-Time Data Protection

Static data masking obscures data permanently, while dynamic masking hides data on the fly, A data product platform runs either, depending on the use case.

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January 7, 2024

Top Data Masking Tools Comparison for 2025

Data masking replaces PII with fake but realistic data. Learn about the top tools for 2025: K2view, EPI-USE LABS, Oracle, IBM, Camouflage, and Informatica.

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December 24, 2023

Data Masking Tools for SQL Server: What, Why, and How?

Data masking tools for SQL Server are software solutions that automatically discover and mask any sensitive data found in Microsoft SQL Server databases.

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December 18, 2023

Free Data Masking Tools – Really?

Protecting PII and sensitive data with free data masking tools may be tempting, but there are major risks involved. Here’s what you need to know.

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December 7, 2023

Data Masking Tools: Gartner Perspectives

Here’s a free high-level synopsis of Gartner’s Market Guide for Data Masking to familiarize data pros with the available technologies and latest use cases.

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December 6, 2023

Open-Source Data Masking Tools: Can You Afford to Go Cheap?

Study the benefits and risks of open-source data masking tools vs commercial solutions for both static and dynamic data masking.

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November 27, 2023

Test Data Integrity Ensures Superior Test Data Masking

Test data integrity ensures that the data used in testing is accurate, consistent, and reliable, to prevent errors in storage, retrieval, and processing.

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October 24, 2023

K2view a Leader in the 2023 SPARK Matrix for Data Masking Tools

Quadrant Knowledge Solutions announced today that it has named K2view as a 2023 technology leader in the SPARK Matrix: Data Masking, 2023.

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July 3, 2023

Data Obfuscation: What You Need to Know

Hiding in plain sight: Data obfuscation disguises sensitive data by hiding its true meaning to protect it from unauthorized access, breaches, or misuse.

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June 29, 2023

Complying with Today’s Data Anonymization Standards

Data anonymization standards are guidelines that ensure that personal or sensitive information cannot be re-identified, to protect an individual’s privacy.

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June 27, 2023

Top 5 Data Anonymization Companies in 2025

Data anonymization hides or removes PII from datasets to comply with privacy laws. Here’s what look out for when evaluating different vendors and tools.

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June 26, 2023

The Best Types of Data Anonymization for My Organization

The best type of data anonymization – generalization, suppression, pseudonymization, data swapping, or perturbation – depends on the needs of the company.

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June 7, 2023

Pseudonymization vs Encryption: Understanding the Differences

Pseudonymization and encryption are both approved techniques for protecting data privacy, however where the former anonymizes data, the latter locks it up.

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June 4, 2023

Data Anonymization vs Encryption: What You Need to Know

Data anonymization and encryption are 2 separate approaches to protecting personal information and complying with data privacy laws, like GDPR and CPRA.

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June 1, 2023

Confused by De-Identification vs Pseudonymization?

Confusing de-identification with pseudonymization can put personal or sensitive data at risk, create a false sense of security, and endanger compliance.

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May 31, 2023

Why data minimization is a key principle of data privacy laws

Data minimization is the practice of collecting and retaining only the personal or sensitive data that is deemed absolutely essential to an organization.

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May 30, 2023

Pseudonymization vs Tokenization: Benefits and Differences

Pseudonymization and tokenization are two popular, but distinct, methods of data protection that are cornerstones in any company’s data privacy toolkit.

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May 14, 2023

Data Anonymization vs Data Masking: Definitions and Use Cases

Data anonymization erases classified, personal, or sensitive information from datasets, while data masking replaces confidential data with altered values.

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May 14, 2023

Data De-Identification: What is it and Why do I Need it?

Data de-identification is a data masking method that severs the connection between data and the person associated with it, to ensure privacy compliance.

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May 2, 2023

Do I Really Have to Anonymize Data?

Companies anonymize data to ensure that private information remains that way. How important is it to anonymize data, and what happens if you don’t?

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April 23, 2023

The L Diversity Data Anonymization Model: Extending K Anonymity

L Diversity reduces the risk of re-identification of sensitive data by ensuring that individual records in a dataset are not too similar to each another.

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April 18, 2023

Pseudonymization vs anonymization: Which to use when

Data privacy laws have made pseudonymization or anonymization a requirement for data processing, access, and security. But which is best for your needs?

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April 18, 2023

Pseudonymized data: Pros and cons

Pseudonymized data replaces PII with artificial identifiers that deter unauthorized access or exposure. Examine the pros and cons of this technique here.

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April 18, 2023

Re-identification of anonymized data: What you need to know

Re-identification of anonymized data occurs when an individual can be identified by linking masked data with public records or combined personal attributes.

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April 16, 2023

Data anonymization techniques: 12 keys to compliance

Data anonymization techniques modify data so that it can’t be linked to a specific person, while preserving its analytical and operational functionality.

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April 3, 2023

What is K Anonymity and Why Data Pros Care

K anonymity is a data anonymization technique used to protect individual privacy in a dataset, involving PII generalization, masking, or pseudonymization.

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March 28, 2023

Data masking technology: Business entities take the lead

Entity-based data masking technology allows data security teams to easily safeguard PII, while ensuring relational consistency and contextual integrity.

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March 21, 2023

Anonymization of data combines privacy with productivity

Anonymization of data is the process of preserving privacy by deleting or encoding identifiers that link people to their sensitive information in datasets.

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March 16, 2023

What is pseudonymization?

Pseudonymization substitutes codes for Personally Identifiable Information (PII), while maintaining data functionality for analytics and operations.

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February 26, 2023

Anonymized data advantages and disadvantages

What is anonymized data, and why do enterprises require it? Learn about its key types, benefits, challenges, and a new approach based on business entities.

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February 19, 2023

Data Masking Solutions: Choosing the Right One

With so many data masking solutions out there, it's hard to know which is best for you. Understanding the use cases, risks, and features helps you decide.

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February 1, 2023

Data Masking Methods Matched to Use Cases

Different use cases call for different data masking methods. Learn about some of the most important data masking methods, as well as when to use each.

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January 29, 2023

Data Masking Examples from the Real World

Masking personal data is a great way to protect it, while ensuring its functionality. Learn about the most common data masking examples and use cases here.

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December 21, 2022

Data masking software: What's best for you?

What are the most essential features to look for in data masking software? Read all about the use cases, capabilities, vendors, and approaches to consider.

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December 6, 2022

Data tokenization vs masking: Why, where, and when

Data tokenization and masking protect personal information and enable compliance. Learn where and when to employ each – and how business entities can help.

Data Masking

December 6, 2022

Masking data for compliance: 6 security & CI/CD benefits

Masking data, the process of anonymizing personal information with non-sensitive values, is key to ensuring data security and compliancy with privacy laws.

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November 24, 2022

Data Masking Vendors: Top Picks for 2025

With so many data masking vendors out there, finding the most appropriate one can be challenging. Here are this year's top picks and ways to evaluate them.

Data Masking

October 13, 2022

Data Masking Standard – Aim for the Highest

For global enterprises, complying with privacy laws is a daunting task. Learn how to simplify compliance, by aiming for the highest data masking standard.

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September 19, 2022

Dynamic Data Masking: Why You Need It

Dynamic data masking is a data masking technique that limits the exposure of personal or sensitive data by anonymizing it for all non-authorized users..

Data Masking

September 13, 2022

Types of Data Masking and Key Feature Requirements – Buyer's Checklist

When evaluating a data masking tool, make sure it handles all types of data masking, and includes certain key features. Read on for the complete checklist, and...

Data Masking

September 6, 2022

Test data masking vs synthetic test data – What’s best, and why

To support continuous development, most enterprises rely on test data masking. But more and more are realizing the value in synthetic test data. Learn why.

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August 24, 2022

Data masking vs encryption: What you need to know

Here’s a rundown on data masking vs encryption vis a vis how they both work, what they’re used for, and how to pick the best solution for your business.

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July 20, 2022

Data Masking Techniques: Which Suit You?

For many companies, data masking is the best way to ensure data security and compliance, but which techniques are best for your business?

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July 10, 2022

Data Masking Best Practices

Assure data protection with 5 data masking best practices: Identify PII, choose the right technique, test it, secure it, and ensure relational integrity. Table...

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June 27, 2022

Data masking vs tokenization: Where and when to use which

Data masking and tokenization are used to protect sensitive data. Discover where and when to use each – and how a business entity approach optimizes both....

Data Masking

June 13, 2022

Data tokenization solutions: Reducing cybersecurity risk

Learn why data tokenization is a top data protection method, and how a business entity approach optimizes its impact, in this webinar synopsis.

Data Masking

March 24, 2022

Tokenization of data and its connection to business entities

The tokenization of data replaces personally identifiable information with a valueless equivalent that safely enables compliant testing and development.

Data Masking

January 20, 2022

What is tokenization and how to choose the right solution

Tokenization replaces sensitive data with unique identification symbols that retain the basic information about the data without compromising its security..

Data Masking

January 5, 2022

Data tokenization software protects PII and other sensitive data

Data tokenization software replaces sensitive data with a non-sensitive equivalent, or token, and may enable storage of the original data in a token vault.

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