Hands-On Security in DevOps

Case 4 – data-masking library for implementation

For the development team, for the implementation of services that relate to personal information handling, there will be a need for data-masking APIs, which are used to anonymize personal data. The typical use cases to do the data masking include data export, reporting or query results based on access roles, troubleshooting logs, the communication between third-party components, and the export of production databases. Take a look at this diagram:

Here are some of the common data-masking APIs, based on the programming languages:

• Data masking (JavaScript library): https://github.com/scokmen/data-mask ...