Over the past severals years, data loss and data breach have been a fixture of headline news. From high-profile hacks of retailers such as Target and Home Depot to inadvertent data leaks from large multi-national banks, it is clear that a lack of data security poses a substantial threat to business operations. In response, many private and public organizations have turned to data masking which – when deployed correctly – protects sensitive data and substantially reduces the surface area of risk.