From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
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Data obfuscation
From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
Data obfuscation
- [Instructor] An alternative to removing data from a data set is transforming it into a format where the original information can't be retrieved. This is a process called data obfuscation, and we have several tools at our disposal to assist us. First, we can use a hash function to transform a value in our data set to a hash value. Now, remember from our discussion of hash functions that their one way functions. If we apply a strong hash function to a data element, we may replace the value in our file with the hash value. While it isn't possible to retrieve the original value directly from the hash value, there is one possible flaw to this approach. If someone has a list of all possible values for a field, they can conduct something called a rainbow table attack. In this attack, the attacker computes the hashes of those candidate values and then checks to see if those hashes exist in the data file. Let's say that we had a…
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