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About Masking Gateway

Who Is Masking Gateway For?

The Masking Gateway enables your mobile network to protect subscribers’ personally identifiable data by masking it before sharing with other businesses or authorised recipients. This prevents data recipients from directly identifying individuals.

The gateway masks subscribers’ identities (MSISDNs or account numbers). If needed, Pharos can customise the gateway for you to mask other subscriber data, such as email addresses, names, and dates of birth.

What Does Masking Gateway Do?

Masking Gateway performs data masking, which is also known as data anonymisation, de-identification, and obfuscation. It lets you substitute sensitive identification data with anonymised values.

Here is an example of a masked subscriber ID:

Account ID Original: 0123456789

Account ID Masked: zhOCAJFdXxiSsxJAJXa3LTA6cadouG22aqWp8ukxGEt6lDq GQ2dN

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Benefits of Ownership

Ensure compliance with customer data privacy laws.
Safeguard sensitive customer data (like subscriber IDs) for sharing with 3^rd parties.
Share customer data anonymously with 3^rd parties.
Stop third-parties from reselling your customers' contact information to advertisers and analysts.
Get a cost-effective masking solution.

Features

Core Functionality: Mask any printable data to share in real time.
Data Source Inputs: OpenAPI 3.0.3.
Masking Methods: Performs real-time Dynamic Data Masking without altering your source data. Data is masked securely using a selection of encryption, substitution, and obfuscation techniques.
Customer Bases: The gateway supports Tier 1, 2, and 3 operator sites.
Tamper Detection: Makes masked data tamper resistant; should the gateway detect tampering, it prevents unmasking.
Masking Functions:
Mask Data: Substitutes original data with tamper-resistant masked data.
Unmask Data: Substitutes (untampered) masked data with unmasked data.
Deployment Options: Bare-metal, virtual machine, or cloud.

Why Masking Gateway?

Masking Gateway ensures that you comply with customer data privacy regulations by preventing subscribers' contact information from being exposed. Doing so enables you to:

Share Data With 3^rd Parties: Safely share subscriber data with 3^rd-party vendors, contractors, or partners by masking personal information while maintaining its analytical value.

Share Data with Customer Support: Mask sensitive subscriber information to allow your customer support personnel to assist or troubleshoot issues without the risk of revealing subscribers' personal data.

Get Data Analytics And Insights: Allow business users and analysts to access and query data to obtain insights—while safeguarding your subscriber’s contact information.

Mask subscribers’ personally identifiable data to comply with customer data privacy regulations