Hexaware Data Masking Solution for PeopleSoft Applications

Hexaware Data Masking Solution for PeopleSoft Applications

1. Introduction

As information is a corporate asset across all organizations, the need for information security is the need of the hour. Data distributed across various phases of software development and testing creates vulnerability to unscrupulous access to vital information. Nearly all countries place a legal obligation on data holder which requires protection.

2. Subject Clarity

The Need for Data Masking

Information in a production environment is normally protected by restricting access to the underlying data. However, production system usually has one or more replicated development and test copies. Controls on such environments are necessarily much looser in nature. This greatly increases the risk of data being used inappropriately

3. Problem Definition Restatement

Enabling development and test consultants to access genuine production data introduces a host of business confidentiality and legal data protection issues, especially when the environment is shared with vendors and consultants outside the corporate.

The test and development teams need to work with the enterprise system which is structurally correct functional copies of the live environment. However, they need not necessarily be able to view security sensitive information such as employee’s SSN number, genuine credit card / bank account numbers. For the development and test purposes, as long as the data looks real, the actual record content is usually irrelevant.

4. Solution Proposition

The Akiva Solution

Akiva is a data masking tool build for PeopleSoft applications. It masks the sensitive information in non-production database, safe for wider visibility.

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