Generating masked test data to protect data privacy

Data masking is used to ensure data privacy in non-production environments for purposes such as software development and testing, software user training, or data mining and research. You can use this product with IBM® Optim to mask your enterprise test data.
In a typical scenario, you complete the following steps to generate masked test data.
  1. Annotate atomic domain model objects with data privacy information such as classification, privacy policy, and masking algorithms.
  2. Specify annotated domain data types for columns during physical data modeling.
  3. Create a diagram of the physical data model that includes the tables and relationships that you want to export for masking.
  4. Export annotated physical data models to an Optim export file.
  5. Open the Optim export file in IBM Optim and use the file to create a script that generates masked test data from a source database and inserts the data into a target database.
  6. Generate a report that demonstrates data privacy compliance.
Related tasks
Exporting a physical data model to IBM Optim
Related information
Domain model object properties
Modifying the properties of a domain model object in the Properties view
Domain models
Generating model information reports

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