Masking Machine

GDPR pseudonymization & compliance

IT Manager

Rossella Cobelli participated as a speaker at the Irion Innovation Day
2019 event, held in Milan at the Cariplo Foundation.

Among the topics addressed:

Data Masking, GDPR, Compliance.

The needs
An automated, maintainable, and reversible solution

GDPR compliance

Data pseudonymization for overturning between environments

Different consistency levels: record, table, table-to-table, time

Consistency between data in multiple application subsystems

Maintaining statistical consistency

Reversible masking

Heterogeneous input and output storage

Centralized rule dictionary

Codeless rule maintenance

Automated process

The solution
From real to anonymous and feasible data with Irion EDM

Some of the features of Irion EDM:

Masking Engine

Common Function Catalog

EasT^® Model

Read / Write Native Connectors

Autonomous dictionary definition.

Consistent and semantically correct database for non-production environments.

Possibility to import production data from external sources masking them according to pre-existing environments.

Constantly incrementally updated databases.

Possibility to analyze specific cases by unmasking on production environments.

The challenges
Data Integrity and consistency

5 databases

42 files

300 entities

700 fields

1.7 billion records

Technical and functional data model