Data Redaction

Reduce Risks Associated With Unintended Sensitive Data Exposures

Data redaction is a crucial capability in the arsenal of any organization looking to enhance its data protection capabilities. It allows for the safe sharing and handling of documents and reduces risks associated with unintended data exposures.

PK Protect is a data-centric security solution that provides various methods of protection for sensitive data, including encryption, masking, and redaction. Data redaction is the process of permanently removing visible sensitive data from a document. Instead of presenting the complete data, redaction replaces or hides the data with redacted content like black boxes or other placeholders. This is crucial for any organization looking to enhance its data security posture. It allows for the safe sharing and handling of documents and reduces risks associated with unintended data exposures.

Compliance with Regulations

Help your organization comply with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and more by ensuring that sensitive data is not mistakenly exposed.

Secure Sharing

Organizations can safely share redacted documents with third parties (e.g., partners, vendors, or customers) without revealing sensitive information.

Data Minimization

Data redaction only stores the absolutely necessary data and obfuscating the rest.

Risk Reduction

Even if a document is mistakenly shared, the redacted information remains protected.

Preservation of Data Context

While encryption makes data unreadable, redaction preserves the context of a document. This allows users to understand the general content without seeing the specific sensitive data.

Flexibility

Redaction provides flexibility in terms of what can be hidden. Organizations can redact specific portions of a document, such as Social Security numbers, without hiding the entire document.

Simplifies Data Handling

When dealing with large datasets or databases, redacting sensitive fields at the source can simplify the downstream handling and processing of the data.

Auditing and Monitoring

Ensure that data redaction processes are applied correctly and consistently.

What Customers Have to Say About PK Protect

“Data privacy is going to continue to be important. And given that we operate at a global scale, we have to stay on top of that. This is why we are making investments in technology and working with partners like PKWARE.”

Harveer Singh, Chief Data Architect & Global Head of Data, Western Union

Data redaction is an essential capability in the data security landscape, especially in the current era when personal and sensitive data protection has become a major concern. Redaction involves masking, replacing, or removing specific data within a document or database, ensuring that sensitive information is concealed from unauthorized access.

Data Redaction Benefits for Your Data Security Posture

Policy Driven

The primary purpose of redaction is to prevent unauthorized users from accessing sensitive information. This could be credit card details, addresses, or other personally identifiable information (PII).

Reduced Risk of Data Breaches

By redacting the most sensitive parts of a dataset, even if there’s an unauthorized access or leak, the exposed data might be rendered useless or less impactful.

Regulatory Compliance

Many industries are subject to regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and more that require the protection of sensitive data. Redaction helps organizations comply with these regulations by safeguarding the data.

Supports Information Sharing

Sometimes, organizations need to share data with third parties, partners, or even the public. Redaction ensures that the broader dataset can be shared without revealing confidential or sensitive data.

Incorporating data redaction into a broader data security strategy, alongside encryption, access controls, and other security measures, provides a comprehensive approach to safeguarding information assets.