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          Protect Sensitive Data with Data Mask & Seed

          Protect Sensitive Data with Data Mask & Seed

          Protect sensitive information in your sandboxes by replacing personally identifiable information (PII) with realistic synthetic data.

          Required Editions

          Available in: Lightning Experience
          Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with the Salesforce Data Mask add-on license.

          Data Mask & Seed helps you maintain data privacy and meet regulatory compliance requirements when your team works with sandboxes. Create reusable masking policies that define which objects and fields to mask, choose from built-in or custom replacement value libraries, and run masking jobs manually, on a schedule, or automatically when sandboxes are created or refreshed. You can filter which records to mask within each object and monitor job progress with detailed reports.

          Use Data Mask & Seed in sandboxes to run masking jobs and delete sensitive data like case comments, email messages, and chatter comments. In production orgs, create and manage policies that run automatically in target sandboxes after a refresh.

          • Data Mask & Seed Requirements and Limitations
            This topic provides the requirements and limitations that govern working with Data Mask & Seed. Before working with Data Mask & Seed, review these requirements and limitations.
          • Data Mask & Seed Home Tab
            The Data Mask & Seed Home page provides descriptions of the application’s features and the UI utilities for beginning your work with the new Data Mask & Seed application.
          • Data Mask & Seed Policies Tab
            Use the Policies tab to create, view, edit, and delete masking policies for your org.
          • Custom Libraries Overview
            Custom libraries are user-defined collections of values that you can use to mask text or email fields in a masking policy.
          • Monitor Masking Jobs from the Jobs Tab
            Access the Data Mask & Seed Jobs tab to monitor running and completed masking jobs, view job details, and cancel jobs in progress. The Jobs tab is only available in sandboxes.
           
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