News and Events « DataVeil Data Masking

Jul
25

New video: Getting Started with DataVeil, a Technical Demonstration

We have published a ‘getting started’ technical demo of version 3 of our DataVeil data masking software. Recommended audience is all new and prospective users.

It shows how to select columns on your database for masking, how to configure masks for them and how to run a masking project. A few other features are briefly mentioned such as the automatic generation of masking reports.

Click on Getting Started Technical Demonstration Video to view.

You may also be interested in another demo video that shows how to use the Discovery feature that helps you find sensitive data and automatically creates and configures masks for you. Click on Sensitive Data Discovery & Masking Demo Video to view.

More DataVeil videos at https://www.dataveil.com/demo/

Jun
15

New video: How to mask a Social Security Number

Today we added a new video that demonstrates how to use DataVeil to mask a US Social Security Number.

Mar
31

DataVeil 3.0 Now Available

The DataVeil 3.0 data masking software has been released and is now available for immediate download.

Among the new features are data masking and discovery reports that are automatically generated and managed. You can even set up optional email notification of completions with or without the PDF reports attached.

The discovery capability itself has had some major improvements including automatic mask generation for detected sensitive fields.

Upgrading from an earlier version of DataVeil is easy and seamless. Just download, unzip and run the launcher. All of your previous settings will be found and maintained.

To celebrate the release, we are offering a promotional discount on the license fee.

We also continue to offer free data masking licenses that never expire and with all product features enabled.

Sep
07

Amendments to Japan’s Privacy Law

On 3 September 2015, extensive amendments were introduced to the law in Japan which deals with the protection of personal information, “The Act on the Protection of Personal Information” (“APPI”). The effective date of the amended APPI has not yet been fixed; however, the law will take effect two years from its date of publication. While the details on the manner of its implementation still remain unclear, the following are some of the noteworthy amendments to the law.

Canada Has Ammended its Privacy Laws (“PIPEDA”)

The Government of Canada has amended the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA“), which generally governs the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by private sector organizations in all Canadian provinces except for Alberta, British Columbia and Québec. Some of the amendments came into force immediately as of June 18, 2015, while others will not come into force until a later date.

Hungary Imposes New Mandatory Data Breach Registry Requirements

The Hungarian Parliament has recently adopted an amendment (Act No CXXIX of 2015) to the Information Act that will provide regulation regarding how data controllers must treat data breach incidents.

Why do I need to mask sensitive data, shouldn’t it be already encrypted?

This type of question seems to pop up on internet forums from time-to-time.

Recently I saw a question similar to:

“How can I mask Social Security Numbers when restoring Production data onto our Development environment?”

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May
12

SQL Server 2005 Support Ends August 1, 2015

SQL Server 2005 shall no longer be actively supported within the DataVeil data masking software effective as of August 1, 2015.

This means that any new DataVeil features implemented from August 1 shall not consider any compatibility issues with SQL Server 2005. All existing 2005 capabilities shall be retained but maintenance and support for these shall not be available.

From August 1, 2015, the DataVeil data masking software shall support SQL Server versions 2008, 2012 and 2014. All current Oracle version support remains unchanged.

Feb
11

Data Masking from Command Line Now Available

The much-requested command line capability has been delivered today with the release of version 2.3 of the DataVeil data masking software.

This means that you can easily automate the data masking process by running DataVeil from standard batch files on your operating system.

Jan
05

Data Masking Preview & Review Features

As of version 2.2, released today, we introduce a very useful feature that allows you to perform a Preview Run.

This lets you run the masking process, without updating the original table values, and preview the Before & After masked values.

When you are satisfied that your configured masks are performing as expected you can then perform an actual Run. You can also review the Before & After masked values after an actual Run too.

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