Creating Masking Policies

1. In the Create Policy screen, provide a Title and (optional) Description for the policy and select Masking Policy from the Policies dropdown. The Edit Policy screen displays.
2. Select the type of mask to apply to the policy from the Mask data menu. You can apply one of the following mask types to each masking policy:

• Hash function - When this mask type is selected, the selected data are masked with a hash value.
• Replace with null - When this mask type is selected, the selected data are replaced with nulls.
• Replace with a constant - When this mask type is selected, you must also specify the constant value to use to mask the data.
• Use a pattern - When this mask type is selected, you must also specify a regular expression matching the pattern of the data to be masked (e.g., '(\\d+)-(\\d+)-(\\d+)') and the text replacement pattern for matched data.
• Round to a lower precision - When this mask type is selected, you must also specify a precision for rounding down numbers.

4. Use the Add buttons in the Scope and Exceptions fields to describe the parameters of the policy scope and exceptions, respectively.

6. Click Done when you are finished to save the policy and return to the Create Policy screen.

8. Click Confirm.

The newly created policy is added to the Policies screen.