An analyst wants to move data from production to the UAT server to test the latest release. Which of the following strategies to protect data should the analyst use?

The correct answer is A. Data masking. Data masking protects sensitive production data when moving it into non-production environments by replacing sensitive fields with realistic but fictitious values, allowing safe testing without exposing real data.

Submitted by katya_ua· Mar 6, 2026Security Operations

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AData masking
BData tokenization
CData obfuscation
DData encryption

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A
78% (14)
B
6% (1)
C
6% (1)
D
11% (2)

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Data masking protects sensitive production data when moving it into non-production environments by replacing sensitive fields with realistic but fictitious values, allowing safe testing without exposing real data.

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