Data Masking & Sanitization Simplified with Tessell

Tessell offers a solution for organizations aiming to enhance data security by allowing them to sanitize databases either as a one-time action or through automation, which is crucial for creating testing environments without exposing full production datasets. This guide illustrates the use of the Tessell toolkit with a PostgreSQL database on AWS, explaining how to create sanitized data via a series of steps, including taking database snapshots, performing manual sanitization using scripts, cloning sanitized snapshots, and verifying the process. Tessell enables the establishment of a sanitization schedule for automated operations, providing flexibility to manage data access policies across different regions and share sanitized data with other users. While this guide focuses on PostgreSQL databases on AWS, similar procedures can be applied to other databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL, whether hosted on AWS or Azure.