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  4. Masking data ›
  5. Identify sensitive data ›
  6. Choosing a masking algorithm

Choosing a masking algorithm

  • Introduction to Delphix Compliance Services (DCS)
  • User access and authentication ›
    • Role-based access control
    • Search for users
    • SSO workflow ›
      • Enable SSO for your organization
      • Log in using SSO
    • Username and password workflow ›
      • Log in with username and password
      • Add an administrator
      • Edit an administrator
      • Delete an administrator
      • Transfer ownership
  • DCS for Azure ›
    • Release Notes ›
      • New Features
    • Introduction
    • DCS for Azure Dataflows
    • Setting up DCS for Azure ›
      • Registering a Service Principal
      • Setting up ADF Private Link with DCS
      • Setting up an Azure SQL Metadata Store
      • Setting up linked services ›
        • Create an Azure function using an App Service Plan
        • Assign managed identity access for an Azure function to ADLS
        • For Delphix Compliance Service
        • For Azure SQL metadata store
        • For Apache Cassandra to Apache Cassandra ›
          • Configure Azure Function Access to Cassandra secret using Azure Key Vault
          • Create an Azure Function linked service for Cassandra
        • For Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL to Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL ›
          • Configure Azure Function Access to Cosmos DB Secret Using Azure Key Vault
          • Create an Azure function linked service
        • For Azure Data Lake Gen 2 to Azure Data Lake Gen 2 ›
          • Linked service for Azure Data Lake source
        • For Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Database ›
          • Parameterizing Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) Linked Services
        • For Dataverse (Dynamics 365) ›
          • Linked service for Dataverse
          • Linked service for Dataverse REST API
        • For Databricks to Databricks ›
          • Linked service for Databricks
          • Linked service for ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage)
        • For AzureDB for PostgreSQL to AzureDB for PostgreSQL
        • For Snowflake to Snowflake ›
          • Linked service for Snowflake
          • Linked service for Azure Blob Storage
    • Profiling and Automated Sensitive Data Discovery (ASDD) ›
      • Discovery overview
      • ASDD setup ›
        • Discovery pipeline-specific resources ›
          • Configure Managed Identity Access for ADF Pipelines
          • Set up Dynamics 365 pipelines
        • Importing templates
        • Triggering the pipeline
        • Viewing results in Azure SQL Metadata Store
    • Optimizing DCS for Azure masking performance with Azure SQL
    • Enable CDC on Azure SQL
    • Best practices
  • DCS for Salesforce ›
    • Getting started with DCS for Salesforce
    • Supported data sources
    • Add a dataset connector
    • Test a data source connector
    • Managing Salesforce metadata
    • Programmatic access to DCS (API Tokens)
  • Masking data ›
    • Identify sensitive data ›
      • Find sensitive data categories ›
        • Create a domain
        • Pre-set domains
      • Choosing a masking algorithm ›
        • Configuring algorithms
        • Out-of-the-box algorithm instances
        • Pre-set masking algorithms ›
          • Binary lookup
          • Character mapping
          • Character replacement
          • Checkdigit ›
            • Japan Corporate Number
            • Japan Drivers License
            • Japan My Number
          • Date replacement
          • Date shift
          • Data cleansing ›
            • Data cleansing (algorithm frameworks)
          • Dependent Date Shift ›
            • Configure Dependent Date Shift
          • Email ›
            • Email (algorithm frameworks) ›
              • dlpx-core FirstName
              • dlpx-core CM Alpha Numeric
          • Free text redaction
          • Full name
          • Name
          • Payment card
          • Regex decompose
          • Secure lookup
          • String algorithm chain
          • Tokenization
          • Secure shuffle
        • Create a masking algorithm
        • Import a masking algorithm
    • Create and customize rulesets ›
      • Overview (Create and customize rulesets)
      • Pre-set rulesets
      • Create a ruleset
      • Customize a ruleset
      • Export ruleset
    • Masking jobs ›
      • Create a masking job
      • Custom filters in masking
      • Monitor a masking job
      • Cancel a masking job
      • Masking report
  • Developer resources ›
    • API references and example API call
  • Introduction to Delphix Compliance Services (DCS)
  • User access and authentication ›
    • Role-based access control
    • Search for users
    • SSO workflow ›
      • Enable SSO for your organization
      • Log in using SSO
    • Username and password workflow ›
      • Log in with username and password
      • Add an administrator
      • Edit an administrator
      • Delete an administrator
      • Transfer ownership
  • DCS for Azure ›
    • Release Notes ›
      • New Features
    • Introduction
    • DCS for Azure Dataflows
    • Setting up DCS for Azure ›
      • Registering a Service Principal
      • Setting up ADF Private Link with DCS
      • Setting up an Azure SQL Metadata Store
      • Setting up linked services ›
        • Create an Azure function using an App Service Plan
        • Assign managed identity access for an Azure function to ADLS
        • For Delphix Compliance Service
        • For Azure SQL metadata store
        • For Apache Cassandra to Apache Cassandra ›
          • Configure Azure Function Access to Cassandra secret using Azure Key Vault
          • Create an Azure Function linked service for Cassandra
        • For Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL to Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL ›
          • Configure Azure Function Access to Cosmos DB Secret Using Azure Key Vault
          • Create an Azure function linked service
        • For Azure Data Lake Gen 2 to Azure Data Lake Gen 2 ›
          • Linked service for Azure Data Lake source
        • For Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Database ›
          • Parameterizing Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) Linked Services
        • For Dataverse (Dynamics 365) ›
          • Linked service for Dataverse
          • Linked service for Dataverse REST API
        • For Databricks to Databricks ›
          • Linked service for Databricks
          • Linked service for ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage)
        • For AzureDB for PostgreSQL to AzureDB for PostgreSQL
        • For Snowflake to Snowflake ›
          • Linked service for Snowflake
          • Linked service for Azure Blob Storage
    • Profiling and Automated Sensitive Data Discovery (ASDD) ›
      • Discovery overview
      • ASDD setup ›
        • Discovery pipeline-specific resources ›
          • Configure Managed Identity Access for ADF Pipelines
          • Set up Dynamics 365 pipelines
        • Importing templates
        • Triggering the pipeline
        • Viewing results in Azure SQL Metadata Store
    • Optimizing DCS for Azure masking performance with Azure SQL
    • Enable CDC on Azure SQL
    • Best practices
  • DCS for Salesforce ›
    • Getting started with DCS for Salesforce
    • Supported data sources
    • Add a dataset connector
    • Test a data source connector
    • Managing Salesforce metadata
    • Programmatic access to DCS (API Tokens)
  • Masking data ›
    • Identify sensitive data ›
      • Find sensitive data categories ›
        • Create a domain
        • Pre-set domains
      • Choosing a masking algorithm ›
        • Configuring algorithms
        • Out-of-the-box algorithm instances
        • Pre-set masking algorithms ›
          • Binary lookup
          • Character mapping
          • Character replacement
          • Checkdigit ›
            • Japan Corporate Number
            • Japan Drivers License
            • Japan My Number
          • Date replacement
          • Date shift
          • Data cleansing ›
            • Data cleansing (algorithm frameworks)
          • Dependent Date Shift ›
            • Configure Dependent Date Shift
          • Email ›
            • Email (algorithm frameworks) ›
              • dlpx-core FirstName
              • dlpx-core CM Alpha Numeric
          • Free text redaction
          • Full name
          • Name
          • Payment card
          • Regex decompose
          • Secure lookup
          • String algorithm chain
          • Tokenization
          • Secure shuffle
        • Create a masking algorithm
        • Import a masking algorithm
    • Create and customize rulesets ›
      • Overview (Create and customize rulesets)
      • Pre-set rulesets
      • Create a ruleset
      • Customize a ruleset
      • Export ruleset
    • Masking jobs ›
      • Create a masking job
      • Custom filters in masking
      • Monitor a masking job
      • Cancel a masking job
      • Masking report
  • Developer resources ›
    • API references and example API call
  • Out-of-the-box algorithm instances
  • Pre-set masking algorithms
  • Create a masking algorithm
  • Import a masking algorithm
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Oct 9, 2026

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