A new development “Masking Gateway for Enterprises” (Magen) has been designed to catch protected data before it can reach users screens, according to IBM.
Megan was produced at IBM’s Haifa research laboratory (Click Here) and this technology runs on a server installed alongside existing server and client applications.
The screen of information before reaching you is treated like picture and optical character recognition is used to identify the parts that an administrator has identified as confidential, thats what IBM says.
The software then places a mask over the details that need to remain hidden, without ever copying, changing or processing the data itself.
This design is very helpful for outsourcing organisations or marketers, who wants to share their internal or external informations.
Magen competes with data-masking software from rival companies such as DataGuise and Oracle.
“Using optical character recognition technology and predefined configurations enables us to provide masking without changing the client applications,” Domany said, project leader at IBM’s Haifa lab.
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