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masking

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-002615

1. The process of systematically removing a field or replacing it with a value in a way that does not preserve the analytic utility of the value, such as replacing a phone number with asterisks or a randomly generated pseudonym.

2. the process of systematically removing a field or replacing it with a value in a way that does not preserve the analytic utility of the value, such as replacing a phone number with asterisks or a randomly generated pseudonym

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-002615
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesNIST SP 800-188; NISTIR 8053; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-002615",
  "term": "masking",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. The process of systematically removing a field or replacing it with a value in a way that does not preserve the analytic utility of the value, such as replacing a phone number with asterisks or a randomly generated pseudonym.\n\n2. the process of systematically removing a field or replacing it with a value in a way that does not preserve the analytic utility of the value, such as replacing a phone number with asterisks or a randomly generated pseudonym",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-188",
    "NISTIR 8053",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/masking/"
}

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