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SAP HANA's Dynamic Data Masking: The Smarter Way

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  SAP HANA - a high-performance in-memory database - accelerates data-driven, real-time decision-making and practice. It supports all workloads with the most extensive advanced analytics on multi-model data, both on-premise and in the cloud. SAP HANA offers a robust security system to help safeguard your data. Apart from the authentication/single sign-on, user/role and authorization management, audit logging, and encryption functionality that already existed, SAP HANA also offers native dynamic data masking functionality. Authorization is the primary means of controlling access. The privilege framework of SAP HANA is based on standard SQL privileges allowing for fine-granular control, with extensions for different use cases such as dashboards or reporting. Roles allow for efficient separation of duties. The functionality of native data masking alters how data appears in views without modifying the underlying data. Since the underlying data remains unchanged, calculations on the masked