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.
Read more at Global Compliance News
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?”
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.
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.
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.
We are very pleased that so many organizations have downloaded DataVeil Freeware Licenses. As promised, those licenses shall never expire.
As of January 5, 2015, we are changing the maximum limit on new Freeware licenses to 200,000 maximum sensitive values. All Freeware licenses issued prior to that date shall be unaffected.
The 200,000 sensitive value Freeware limit shall be the maximum number of masked values per masking Run. You have an unlimited number of Runs. In fact, you can also create an unlimited number of masking projects and the Freeware license shall never expire.
If you require a higher masking limit then please consider our other license options.
Many improvements have been made and we a pleased to announce that DataVeil 2.0 is now ready for release. Simply login to your account and download! You can use your existing license file (you do not need to download it again.)
The first change you’ll notice is that DataVeil Projects now begin as empty and you select which Tables and Columns you want to have in your masking project (instead of DataVeil by default adding everything.) To support this, a new ‘DBMS’ view has been added to the Explorer Window. For those of you with smaller schemas who liked the way it was and want to see a graphical representation of your entire schema, you can easily achieve the same result – just use ‘Add to Project’ on the database node in the DBMS view.
Please make sure that you refer to the Help topic “Getting Started”. It has been revised to describe the changes in detail.
We wish to advise that the current promotional pricing of the DataVeil data masking software shall expire at the end of this month (August 31, 2014.)
The DataVeil software is among the most innovative, feature-rich and powerful static data masking solutions available. It is also among the easiest to use with user feedback such as “Extremely easy to use.”
If you sign-up for the Maintenance option then you’ll benefit from major new features that shall be released in the coming months (we’re keeping it quiet for now, more details soon!)
So if you want to take advantage of some major discounts then please contact us before the end of this month.
Important changes to the Privacy Act 1988 take effect today, March 12, 2014.
Read the full press release at the OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner).
Law reform resources are available at the OAIC law reform page.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 28, 2013. DataVeil Technologies, a software company specializing in data masking technologies, today released its DataVeil data masking software, offering both commercial and freeware solutions.
Although there are data privacy laws and regulations, it may come as a surprise to many people that it is still common practice for companies to share their sensitive customer data in non-secure environments such as in testing, development, training and to even provide it to third-parties such as foreign outsourcing companies.
