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Data Masking Task Flow

To implement data masking operations, assign masking rules to columns in a source. Create a plan and add policies and rules to the plan. Generate a workflow from the plan to mask data in a target database.
Complete the following high-level steps to create the components that you need in a data masking plan:
  1. 1. Create rules, data domains, and policies to define the masking techniques and masking parameters.
  2. 2. Create a project that contains one or more data sources.
  3. 3. Add policies to the project. When you add a policy to a project, the project receives the data domains and the rules that the policy contains.
  4. 4. Add additional rules to the project. When you add additional rules to a project, the project receives the masking rules.
  5. 5. Assign rules to columns in the source. You can assign rules from a policy or data domain. You can assign the default rules from data domains to multiple columns at a time. Manually assign advanced rules and mapplet rules to columns.
  6. 6. Create a plan and add data masking components to the plan. Generate a workflow from the plan. Monitor the progress of the workflow in the Monitor view or in the Plan view.