Control data privacy with New Relic log obfuscation options
Blog post from New Relic
New Relic's log management service offers log obfuscation options to enhance data privacy and comply with security guidelines by concealing sensitive information such as PII, PHI, and financial data. The service utilizes regular expressions to automate the masking or hashing of confidential data, ensuring efficient and scalable obfuscation without lengthy manual configurations. By implementing log obfuscation, organizations can protect data from breaches, adhere to data protection regulations, and maintain customer trust while enabling effective data analysis. Users can create obfuscation rules using either masking, which permanently replaces data with x's, or hashing, which uses SHA-256 for reversible obfuscation. Best practices include identifying sensitive data, developing a strategy, automating the process, testing and monitoring the obfuscation, and documenting the procedures to maintain compliance and effectiveness. Users can get started by accessing their New Relic accounts, benefiting from free data ingestion and user access.