You can use

Dynamic Data Masking

to mask or prevent access to sensitive data stored in production and non-production databases. You set up the rules to specify the database requests to intercept and the masking actions to apply.

Dynamic Data Masking

monitors incoming database requests from the MDM Hub.

Dynamic Data Masking

applies the data masking rules to the database request before it sends it to the database. The database processes the modified request as normal and returns masked results to

Dynamic Data Masking

.

Dynamic Data Masking

then sends the results to the MDM Hub.

You can use

Dynamic Data Masking

to mask data for specific types of database requests or you can restrict access to data from certain groups within an organization. For example, you can create a rule to apply a masking function to credit card numbers when the database request comes from a support team member. When

Dynamic Data Masking

sends the data back to the MDM Hub, the support team member sees the masked numbers instead of the real credit card numbers.