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  • 1.  XML Masking for PII information

    Posted Jun 26, 2020 09:22 AM
    HI Everyone

    Is there a way to mask PII (First Name , last Name, and email) information in the XOG input and output xmls? If yes, Can you please provide some thoughts on this.

    Thanks
    Daya

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    Consultant
    Visa Inc
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  • 2.  RE: XML Masking for PII information

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 03, 2020 01:12 PM
    There is a job any reason why that is not used.

    https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/business-management/clarity-project-and-portfolio-management-ppm-on-premise/15-8-1/administration/configure-secure-authentication-user-accounts-and-passwords/gdpr-protect-personally-identifiable-information.html

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    Thanks & Regards
    Suman Pramanik
    Sr. Principal Support Engineer | Customer Success & Support, Enterprise Software Division
    Broadcom
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  • 3.  RE: XML Masking for PII information

    Posted Jul 03, 2020 03:33 PM
    Just wondering again...
    The questions sounds like what is needed is that PII in the XML input file is masked or output file is masked so that PII data cannot be understood nor identified and yet the files are usable to write and read the real data. Is that correct?
    If you run the job that is it.
    Without a backup it is not possible to restore the data in a supported manner to a understandable format. Even if you created reference data you cannot XOG the old data to overwrite the unidentifiable data (which is the supported way) because XOG will not overwrite, but create new records with new internal ID's. That means that all references in other than resource and user tables will still refer to the old ID's and the masked data.


  • 4.  RE: XML Masking for PII information

    Posted Jul 05, 2020 11:11 AM
    Thanks Suman and Marti for throwing light on this. I will check this and get back to you by checking all this.

    Thanks
    Daya

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    Consultant
    Visa Inc
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  • 5.  RE: XML Masking for PII information
    Best Answer

    Posted Jul 05, 2020 12:59 PM
    The resource object has a field for indicating if that particular resource should be anonymised

    Then as Suman points out there is a job for that

    A precaution, as the job can ruin your data if you do not pay attention

    So to minimize the damage you set the resources inactive and select the Anonymize PII Select  attribute for those you want.





    It is this guy Uberoth who is selected for anonymization.
    When you run the job this is will be your data afterwards




    Also the user data is anonymized


    If you look at it in the db you can see that it is anonymized except for the internal ID.


    If you did not really want to do this, but just wanted to test it and now want to back. You cannot.
    As said before you XOGed tha data out unanonymized before running the job and now try to XOG it back and overwrite the anonymized data you cannot.
    XOG back
    A new record will be created and all the data in the system that used to refer to Pii Uberoth now refer to ZZZ5000000 ZZZ5000000.

    So there is no supported return other than creating just everything from scratch if you make a booboo.