A security administrator needs to import PII data records from the production environment to the test environment for testing purposes. Which of the following would best protect data confidentiality?

The correct answer is A. Data masking. Data masking is a technique that replaces sensitive data with fictitious or anonymized data, while preserving the original format and structure of the data. This way, the data can be used for testing purposes without revealing the actual Pll information. Data masking is one of th

Submitted by anjalisingh· Mar 6, 2026Security Operations

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AData masking
BHashing
CWatermarking
DEncoding

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A
83% (29)
B
3% (1)
C
9% (3)
D
6% (2)

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Data masking is a technique that replaces sensitive data with fictitious or anonymized data, while preserving the original format and structure of the data. This way, the data can be used for testing purposes without revealing the actual Pll information. Data masking is one of the best practices for data analysis of confidential data.

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