CISO's guide to data obfuscation | TechTarget
Organizations today generate, process and share more sensitive information than at any other point in history. Customer records, financial transactions, healthcare information, intellectual property, employee data, operational telemetry and AI training data sets routinely move across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, development environments, analytics pipelines and third-party ecosystems. While encryption has long been a foundational security control for protecting information at rest and in transit, it offers limited protection for data that is actively being processed. There's an increasing need for data security controls that help data to retain business value while reducing the likelihood that sensitive information will be exposed to unauthorized users.
Data obfuscation tools and controls transform sensitive information into a form that is unreadable, deidentified, substituted and significantly less valuable to an attacker while preserving its usefulness for authorized business activities. Unlike encryption, which focuses on confidentiality until data is decrypted, obfuscation enables organizations to develop, test,...
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