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Data Redaction: Reduce Risk and Achieve Compliance

Leverage our data redaction solutions to reduce data exposure and compliance risk while securely using and sharing sensitive information.

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Simplify Data Sharing Without Compromising Security

PK Protect’s redaction capability removes sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers, credit cards, and other PII, but retains structure to preserve context for operational use. For example, a Social Security number would look like this: XXX-XX-1234.

By keeping information secure yet usable, redaction empowers teams to collaborate and exchange information with third parties without exposing personal or confidential information.

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Data Redaction Software for an Enhanced Security Posture

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Stay Compliant and Audit-Ready

Automated data redaction identifies and obfuscates sensitive information on files stored throughout the organization. Redaction gives teams precise and consistent control over how they secure data. It shrinks your risk footprint and makes it easy to prove data protection to support compliance with mandates like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and more.

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Minimize Data Breach Impact

Breaches are increasingly common and can lead to costly penalties and reputational damage. With our data redaction software, organizations can reduce these risks. Even if there’s a data exposure or leak, redaction desensitizes critical information and renders it unusable to unauthorized parties.

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Secure Information Sharing

Teams generate files containing sensitive data daily, but not everyone using those files is authorized to view sensitive elements. Redaction obfuscates sensitive data but preserves the rest of the file. Internal and external parties can leverage data without exposure risk. With redaction, a marketing team can analyze trends without accessing PII. A hospital can share treatment outcomes with research partners without revealing patient identities.

PCI Compliance Made Simple: JPMorgan Chase Secures Data with PK Protect

JPMorgan Chase uses PK Protect to safeguard PCI data by identifying, encrypting, and redacting sensitive data across endpoints and servers. Protection workflows encrypt original documents and redact critical credit card information within the infrastructure supporting the Payment Tech and Merchant Services organization. These measures eliminate sensitive data mishandling, exposure, or loss, allowing JPMorgan Chase to pass internal and external PCI audits. PK Protect also ensures automatic protection of sensitive data before it leaves the organization, preventing accidental data loss through email or other channels.

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Data Redaction Software Features

Policy Driven Protection

Policy Driven Protection

Define discovery and redaction policies for sensitive elements like credit card numbers, addresses, PHI, or any PII. Customizable policies ensure redaction rules apply uniformly across all files and data sources, with different types of redaction for different types of data. Policy-based discovery removes manual, error-prone processes by continuously scanning repositories and the files within them. Apply redaction whenever you place a new file into a repository or when you add sensitive data to an existing file.

Preventing Exposure in Critical Business Applications

Banking systems, ERPs, EMRs, and other production environments store sensitive customer, employee, and business data. This information is typically secure in the core system, but what happens when it leaves? PK Protect discovers sensitive data residing outside of these mission-critical applications and automatically redacts it, ensuring data can’t be exposed to unauthorized parties.

Preventing Exposure in Critical Business Applications
Automated Data Redaction at Scale

Automated Data Redaction at Scale

Sensitive data isn’t isolated to one repository, location, or region. Data regularly moves and users and applications across the entire infrastructure access it. This includes desktops, file servers, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Outlook. Our data redaction solution automates detection and protection across these environments without user interaction. This ensures you don’t miss anything, and that you’re compliant with data security polices and mandates.

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Data Redaction FAQs

Data redaction tools permanently remove sensitive data from a file by replacing the sensitive elements with special characters or a black bar, while preserving all other non-sensitive information.
Data masking replaces sensitive alphanumeric characters with different random characters in the same format. The data looks normal, but in actuality the data was changed so that it’s no longer sensitive.

Data redaction replaces sensitive alphanumeric characters with special characters or a black bar, so it’s visibly obvious that some data elements in the file were obfuscated You can control the remaining elements, like the last four digits of an account or Social Security number.

Each time you create, move, or modify a file, PK Protect initiates a discovery scan for sensitive data. If it finds sensitive elements, the redaction policy automatically acts on the file, removing the sensitive content. This automated data redaction ensures your data is protected whenever it’s created and wherever it resides.