Summary:
With data breach incidents regularly making the news and increasing pressure from regulatory bodies, lawmakers, administration and students alike, the university system must protect its sensitive data across all campuses. Unfortunately, standard encryption methods don’t work anymore as they can be easily bypassed with various schemes. Improved mechanisms must be employed for an integrated approach to data security. By integrating applications with data masking capabilities, campuses have an automated way to protect nonproduction data environments by replacing confidential information such as student social security numbers, name association, and credit card information with fictitious, yet realistic data. Data masking irreversibly protects data in downstream environments by consistently masking data while maintaining referential integrity across heterogeneous data sources.

CSU has enabled data masking at all campuses to ensure optimum student data security and privacy, yet not all campuses have adopted. This roundtable will help campuses with practical steps on leveraging data masking capabilities in their environments.

What we will discuss/facilitate:
• Dispelling myths that might be getting in the way of using data-masking.
• How and why to use data-masking in your campus environment.
• How data-masking can increase productivity.
• Building the bridge between the application and security teams to enable data-masking.
• Tips for technical and functional user adoption.
• Lessons learned for those campuses using data-masking.

What attendees will take away:
Expanded knowledge of data-masking, the benefits to campus and student data security and privacy, and practical steps for employing data-masking at their campus.