IBM pulled the covers off new technology today that uses optical character recognition to conceal data. The data masking tool does not change data but filters it before it reaches the PC screen, making it unnecessary to develop sanitized copies of enterprise data for individual users.
– IBM researchers have developed new data masking technology
they say mixes screen scraping and optical character recognition to conceal
confidential data.
The platform-agnostic software, codenamed MAGEN (Masking
Gateway for Enterprises) works by treating information on the screen as a
picture an…