Data Masking Components: Address

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" Address "

API Reference, CLR Reference (links)

Usage Instructions

Purpose

The purpose of the component is to randomly mask an element of address that includes street number. Often times referred as Address 1, this element usually consists of a street number, street direction, name, and suffix/abbreviation. An example would be 123 North Cherry Lane Street.

Algorithm

Random Substitution Algorithm

Description

Address component takes street address in one of the characters data types both ASCII and unicode (char, nchar, varchar, nvarchar, text, ntext) as an input and produces a street address in the same format as an output in the form of Street Number_Street Name_Street Predicate. The output of the address component is random. It does not guarantee uniqueness of the addresses that are produced although it produces more than a million combinations in creating addresses so that statistical variation of results is high.

API Reference, CLR Reference (links)

Usage Instructions:

1. Configure a source that contains the column with the element of address. A source could be connected to any database, including but not limited to SQL Server , Oracle, Sybase, mySQL, as well as a file.
2. Drag and Drop "Masking Address" data masking component, connect the source and the "Masking Address" data masking component with the data flow path:
3. Now, the data flow path (the blue arrow) passes proper meta-data and data to the "Masking Address" data masking component. If you click on the data flow path, you will see:
4. Now that the metadata for the GAN"Masking Address" data masking component exists, and values are passed into the data masking component,it, please open the component editor:
5. In the second tab,tab of the component editor, "Input Columns", there are available input columns. Please check-markchoose only one column, the onecolumns that you will be masking with Genericthe Alpharandom Numericaddress algorithm:substitution algorithm. You could either check-mark it or choose from the drop-down of the available columns:
6. This will create an extra column with the prefix “Masked_”.
7. Create a connection manager for the destination and configure source component for the destination. In the connection manager, in the tab “Mappings”, specify that you want newly created Field_Masked to be a field replacing the original value. For that, just click on the available input columns, choose the masked value, and map to the “Available Destination Columns”
8. Now, all the configurations are complete for the valid values. You can run the package with the Generic AlphaNumeric Dynamic Data Masking component, and see the results of data masking:

Error Handling

9. If, however, there are invalid values in the package's source, one would need to configure error handling. Invalid values are those that are not conforming to the rules of the entity. To handle invalid values, each data masking component has error handling precedence constraint. One needs to create error destination connection and connect red arrow (error handling constraint) with this destination. As the connection is made, one needs to configure the state of failure: “Fail”,”Ignore” or “Redirect”.
10. It is recommended that one re-directs the output into the error destination, so that later one be able to analyze and process data for quality purposes. The Generic Alpha Numeric components errors are the only ones not recommended for further processing as it is truly hard to break their format.
11. It is our suggestion that with Generic Alpha Numeric component one should not process erroneous data without further analysis at all.

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