User manual

This section contains information and guides about the BizDataX Portal that are grouped by its functionalities. BizDataX Portal implements the following functionalities:

• Projects
  Create projects that help users organize all their data masking and data anonymization activities.

• Data sources and environments
  You can connect to databases using BizDataX database analyzers. Your database metadata will be automatically loaded and prepared for further use.

• Discovery rules
  Built-in discoverers will help you find candidate columns in your data sources that contain sensitive data. You can make use of custom discovery plugins to discover your special sensitive data.

• Discovery findings
  Discovery results can be reviewed and discussed with provided tools to determine whether they are sensitive data or not.

• Specifications
  You can compile a list of tables and columns for masking and specify how each column should be masked.

• Packages
  You will reuse packages modeled in the BizDataX Designer and published on the BizDataX Portal to mask or anonymize your data for multiple purposes through runtime parametrization. You will be able to monitor package executions and analyze performance bottlenecks. You can take appropriate performance tuning steps to optimize the masking of large quantities of data.

• Administration
  You will be able to see a history of completed processes.