Protecting Your Sensitive Data in Azure SQL with Dynamic Data Masking

Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) is a powerful security feature in Microsoft Azure SQL that helps businesses protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. With DDM, businesses can obfuscate sensitive data by masking it, making it more difficult for unauthorized users to access sensitive data.

What is Dynamic Data Masking?

Dynamic Data Masking is a feature in Azure SQL that helps businesses protect sensitive data by masking it. With DDM, sensitive data is replaced with fictional or partially masked values, depending on the user’s access privileges.

DDM can be applied to columns in tables or views that contain sensitive data. The types of masking rules available in Azure SQL Database include:

Partial masking: This replaces part of the sensitive data with asterisks (*) or other characters. For example, a credit card number may be masked to show only the last four digits.

Full masking: This replaces the entire value of the sensitive data with a fictional value. For example, a social security number may be masked to show “XXX-XX-XXXX”.

Random masking: This replaces the sensitive data with a random value that has the same data type and length as the original data.

Why use Dynamic Data Masking?

DDM is an essential security feature in Azure SQL that helps businesses protect their…