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Why Enterprises Need a Data Masking Solution?
Sensitive information isn’t confined to just a few databases; it lives in backups, test systems, analytics pipelines, ERP environments, and cloud storage. As data moves freely across teams and platforms, the risk of exposure skyrockets especially in non-production environments and analytics environments where security often takes a backseat.
Whether it's personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), or financial records, data breaches can cost your enterprise not just millions in fines but also in customer trust and reputation. Regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and PCI DSS mandate strict handling and protection of such data.
The Solix Data Masking Suite steps in, scanning the enterprise to pinpoint sensitive data and anonymizing it to ensure security without compromising usability. The result? A successful audit, protected data, and peace of mind.
Solix Data Masking: Discover. Mask. Protect. Comply
Solix Data Masking isn’t just about masking it’s about understanding your data, protecting it at scale, and proving compliance with confidence. Tailored to reinforce the security of sensitive data within non production and analytics environments, Solix offers an unparalleled fusion of sophisticated data discovery and robust masking techniques, ensuring that sensitive information remains shielded from both internal and external vulnerabilities a seamless, end-to-end data security solution.
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Key Capabilities of Solix Data Masking
Discover, mask, and govern sensitive data across systems with intelligent automation, flexible rules, and enterprise-wide visibility.
Solix Sensitive Data Discovery
Solix Sensitive Data Discovery offers an expansive suite for identifying sensitive information across hundreds of data sources across On-prem and Cloud environments and spanning structured and unstructured data types. With prebuilt discovery patterns and the flexibility to incorporate custom patterns, identifying sensitive data across the enterprise landscape is now easy and efficient. This holistic solution also provides comprehensive reports, ensuring robust compliance and audit readiness for organizations.
Solix Data Masking
Solix Data Masking offers a comprehensive multi-cloud solution to safeguard sensitive data across diverse data repositories and types. It encompasses a range of masking techniques, such as referential masking, redaction, format-preserving encryption, and more. Users can leverage its pre-defined security rules or introduce custom rules. By preserving format and referential integrity across datasets, Solix ensures that the data remains functional without compromising compliance or data security standards.
Solix Data Masking Key Benefits
Secure Sensitive Data, maximize privacy, preserve data usability, and accelerate compliance with a powerful, enterprise-ready data masking solution.
Unified multi-cloud Data Discovery and Masking Platform
Streamline data security with an integrated multi-cloud solution that discovers and protects sensitive data across the enterprise from a single platform.
Advanced Masking Techniques Built In
Choose from referential masking, redaction, format-preserving encryption, and more to fit a wide range of privacy, usability, and compliance needs.
Maintains Format and Data Integrity
Preserve original formats and relationships, allowing masked data to stay functionally accurate for testing, development, analytics, and ML use.
Ready-to-Use and Customizable Rules
Accelerate implementation with pre-configured and customizable discovery patterns and masking rules, reducing setup time and ensuring fast time-to-value.
ERP-Specific Accelerators Included
Speed up data masking for ERP systems like SAP, Oracle, and more, with pre-built project templates designed for accuracy and reduced operational burden.
Detailed Compliance and Audit Reporting
Generate audit-ready reports to demonstrate regulatory compliance and internal policy adherence with complete transparency and traceability.
Real-World Applications of Solix Data Masking
Industry-specific data masking to secure sensitive information, ensure compliance, and enable innovation without risk.
IT & Software Development
Secure Dev/Test Environments: Mask production data for development and QA to prevent exposure of sensitive information while enabling real-world test scenarios.
Banking & Financial Services
Protect Financial and Credit Data: Comply with PCI DSS and GLBA by masking account numbers, transactions, and personal identifiers across systems, including core banking apps.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Safeguard PHI and Patient Data: Meet HIPAA, HITECH, and global health data privacy mandates by masking electronic health records and lab results across clinical applications.
Government & Public Sector
Privacy for Citizen Records: Mask voter IDs, tax details, and census data to comply with national and regional privacy regulations like GDPR and the Indian IT Act.
Retail & E-Commerce
Customer Data Compliance at Scale: Mask loyalty cards, payment data, and contact details to maintain customer trust and ensure CCPA, GDPR, and PCI compliance.
Telecom & Utilities
Subscriber and Usage Data Privacy: Protect call records, subscriber profiles, and utility billing data using advanced masking techniques across legacy and modern systems.
Pharmaceuticals & Clinical Research
Secure Trial and Lab Data: Mask clinical trial participant info and sensitive lab results to adhere to HIPAA, GDPR, and GxP compliance for global regulatory readiness.
Hospitality & Travel
Protect Guest and Booking Info: Mask passport numbers, payment details, and personal preferences stored across booking systems, POS, and loyalty platforms.
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Related Resources
Explore related resources to gain deeper insights, helpful guides, and expert tips for your ongoing success.
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eBook
A Guide to Data Security and Data Privacy in Non-Production and Analytical Environments
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Datasheet
Protect Sensitive Data Across all Non-Production and Analytics Environments
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On-Demand Webinar
How a Healthcare Corporation Secured Non Production Databases with Data Masking to Meet HIPAA Objectives
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Unified archive for structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.
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FAQs for Solix Data Masking
What is data masking, and why do enterprises need it?
Data masking replaces real sensitive values with realistic but fictitious ones so teams can use data safely in dev, test, analytics, and AI. Solix combines Sensitive Data Discovery with policy driven masking across databases, files, apps, and clouds, focusing especially on high risk non production environments.
How is data masking different from encryption, tokenization, or simple obfuscation and how does Solix handle these?
Encryption and tokenization are reversible with keys or vaults; classic masking is usually non reversible. Solix supports both reversible (encryption, tokenization) and non-reversible (substitution, redaction, randomization) techniques, including format preserving options, letting you choose the right control per use case, regulation, and environment.
Why focus so much on non-production and analytics environments—aren’t they less risky than production?
Non-production and analytics environments often hold full production copies but with weaker access controls and more third-party access. That combination makes them breach-prone. Solix Data Masking is built to secure dev, test, QA, staging, analytics, and AI environments so you retain realism without exposing live PII, PHI, or PCI.
Which masking techniques does Solix support, and when would we use them?
Solix supports substitution, shuffling, redaction, randomization, tokenization, format-preserving encryption, and referential masking. You can mix techniques: irreversible substitution for non-prod, tokenization where a vault is needed, FPE where strict formats apply. Our team helps design patterns that balance privacy, functionality, and regulatory expectations.
How does Solix integrate with our SDLC / CI-CD pipelines and data platforms?
Solix integrates directly into your existing SDLC and data workflows by fitting into refresh pipelines so when production is cloned to dev, test, or analytics, masking runs before data is made available downstream. It works alongside ETL/ELT and data platforms, making governed, masked data a standard CI/CD lifecycle stage, not a manual side process.
