InfoSphere Optim Data Masking Solution for Custom and Packaged Applications

Mask confidential information on demand to protect privacy

IBM® InfoSphere® Optim™ Data Masking Solution for Custom and Packaged Applications provides prepackaged data masking routines to transform personal and confidential data, while retaining its contextual meaning. This product masks data on demand to protect privacy in databases, applications, reports and more.

InfoSphere Optim Data Masking Solution for Custom and Packaged Applications:

Masks personal and confidential data—uses data transformation techniques that replace sensitive real data with contextual fictitious data.
Is compliance ready—provides protection and accurate propagation of data through your systems.
Supports heterogeneous environments—integrates with a wide range of applications and databases.

Masks personal and confidential data

Provides data masking routines to help transform complex data elements such as credit card numbers, email addresses, birth dates, bank account numbers and national identifiers.
Allows you to substitute sensitive content with context-aware, fictionalized data for application testing or training to ensure only those with a valid business purpose can access sensitive information.
Enables you to discover hidden instances of private data so they can be protected.

Is compliance ready

Protects data to help you comply with privacy regulations such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Propagates masked data elements to all related tables throughout your databases to maintain referential integrity.

Supports heterogeneous environments

Integrates with other IBM systems such as IBM DB2®, IBM Informix®, IBM IMS™ and IBM z/OS®.
Supports leading enterprise databases and operating systems including Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, IBM Netezza®, Microsoft SQL Server, Adabas, Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux.
Supports enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Amdocs.

InfoSphere Optim Data Masking Solution for Custom and Packaged Applications resources

White paper: IBM InfoSphere Optim Solutions
Read more about protecting sensitive information, ensuring privacy and protecting your company's data in non-production environments.

Ebook: Back to basics: Fundamentals of test data management
Learn more about building and delivering high-quality applications more quickly using realistic test data.

Solution brief: IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Masking Solution (654KB)
Read how this software helps you safeguard personally identifiable information, trade secrets and other sensitive data.

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