Data Masking Tools

In-flight integration
and masking

Ensure integrity with a
data product approach.

Dynamic and
static masking

Protect operational,
analytical, and test data.

Structured and unstructured data

Mask all data types
with an extensive set of tools.

K2View gets top scores in the Gartner Voice of the Customer report

“High-end security for your sensitive information...”

“Innovative, fast and also scalable...”

“Excellent dynamic and static data masking...”

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Our unique approach

At K2View, data masking is powered by our Data Product Platform, which organizes fragmented data from disparate systems according to data product schemas – customer, order, device, or any other business entity.

A data product delivers all the data related to a specific business entity – such as a customer, claim, credit card, payment, or device – to authorized data consumers. All the sensitive data of an individual business entity is masked and managed within its own, encrypted Micro-Database™.

K2View greatly simplifies the implementation of dynamic data masking for operational use cases like Customer 360, Test Data Management, Legacy Application Modernization, Data Tokenization, and Data Pipelining.

In-flight data masking tools

K2View's in-flight data masking eliminates the need for cumbersome batch data masking processes and risk-prone staging areas, where unmasked data is exposed to potential breaches.

Using our graphical Data Transformation and Orchestration tool, data engineers quickly integrate, cleanse, and mask data from production systems, and make it instantly accessible to authorized data consumers.

A data product approach simplifies data masking complexity, ensuring that customer data is:

Complete, with all customer data unified, and sensitive data masked
Clean, with data quality policies enforced in flight
Compliant, adhering to data privacy regulations (GDPR, CPRA, LGPD,...)
Consistent, preserving referential integrity and formatting of masked data, across systems

Dynamic data masking

K2View employs real-time dynamic data masking to transform, obscure, or block access to sensitive data based on user roles and privileges.

A broad range of prebuilt, in-line masking functions can be invoked to protect the data. Additionally, real-time and batch data tokenization and detokenization are supported.

Mask unstructured data

Protect unstructured data – such as images, PDFs, text files, and more – with static and dynamic data masking capabilities. Replace real photos with fake ones. Use OCR to detect content and enable intelligent masking. Synthetically generate digital versions of receipts, checks, contracts and other items for testing purposes.

By managing unstructured data within the K2View data product schema, and masking it in-flight, referential integrity is ensured and consistency maintained, across structured and unstructured data.

Extensive and extendible masking functions

K2View Data Masking comes with a comprehensive library of prebuilt masking functions, designed to provide realistic, but fake data, to preserve data formatting and integrity.

The table below shows a few examples, including masking that creates a valid social security number (SSN), selecting (masked) names from name directories, and generating random numbers, as well as address-based zip codes. The library can be easily extended by custom Java functions that implement additional masking functions.

Field	Masking Function
SSN/National ID	Generate valid SSN
Credit card	Generate valid number based on card type
First name/Last name/Zip code	Select from collection
DOB	Shuffle (preserve statistical diversity)
Any String/number	Random String/number
Email	Concatenation based on new first and last names
Const	Static masking based on a pre provided value
Address	Based on the provided Zip
IBAN	Generate masked values that comply with international banking standards

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