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Data Masking

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Data Masking is an Enterprise feature. Please contact us to discuss getting access.

Overview

The Conduktor Platform enables you to meet compliance regulations and obfuscate personal and sensitive data. As a Platform administrator, you must create policies to secure and govern such data within Conduktor.

Policies will be actioned and applied when:

  • Consuming Kafka messages in the Console
  • Consuming Kafka messages in Conduktor Testing

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Important

Note that data masking does not impact how the underlying data is stored. Currently, policies are applied globally at an organization level. Soon, support will be added for fine-grained policies that can be applied for specific groups of users.

Create a Policy

Navigate to Data Masking via the home screen or the primary navigation switcher.

Select Add Policy and fill out the form with the policy details.

  • Policy Name: Unique name for identifying your policy
  • Compliance: The compliance regulation the policy adheres to (GDPR, PCI-DSS)
  • Information Kind: The kind of information for obfuscation (e.g. PII, Financial)
  • Masking Rule: How the obfuscation should be implemented (e.g. hide-all, hide-last-3)
  • Risk Level: Categorization for the risk level associated with the policy
  • Fields: List of fields that should be obfuscated with the masking rule

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Topic, User and Group Scoped Policies

It's possible to add a more granular scope to Data Masking policies. You can restrict policies to:

  • Topics
  • Users
  • Groups

To implement this, utilize the Resources and Exclude Users or Groups options within the create policy form. Note that it's possible to use a wilcard to apply constraints to a set of resources with a common prefix.

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Validate a Policy

Once you have created a policy, you should validate it through the Conduktor Console.

  • Navigate to a topic that contains data where your policy should be applied
    • Alternatively, use the 'Produce' tab to mock a message that matches your policy rules
  • Check that the expected fields are obfuscated using the appropriate masking rule

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