When to Use Data Redaction?

Unlike Data Masking, which hides sensitive data by permanently replacing it with realistic but fake data, Data Redaction hides data as it is retrieved from the database, leaving the data in the database unchanged.

Data Redaction allows you to easily hide data using various redaction patterns.

Oracle Data Redaction is ideal for situations where you need to redact specific characters from a set of query results that return personally identifiable information (PII) to certain application users. For example, you might want to present a U.S. Social Security number ending in 4320 as *--4320.

Oracle Data Redaction is particularly suitable for call center applications and other applications that are read-only. Be cautious when using Oracle Data Redaction with applications that update the database back, as the redacted data could potentially be rewritten back into the database.

Benefits of Using Data Redaction:

Oracle Data Redaction offers several benefits when used to protect your data.

These benefits include:

• Redaction is applied at runtime, with no impact on the underlying data or storage requirements.
• It works with minimal or no impact on performance.
• It does not require any changes to the application.
• It is available for both on-premises and cloud databases.