Managing domains

Overview

This section describes how you can create and manage your domains. Refer to Discovering Your Sensitive Data for an overview of domains and related concepts.

Domains identify a specific type of sensitive data, along with the masking algorithm to use for that data. From the Settings tab, if you click Domains to the left, the list of domains will be displayed. From here, you can add, edit, or delete domains.

Delphix Continuous Compliance includes built-in domains and algorithms for many common types of sensitive data. You might choose to select a different default masking algorithm for a domain, and/or create additional domains with their own default algorithms. If you create additional algorithms, they will appear in the Algorithms drop-down menu. Because each domain has a single default masking algorithm, a distinct domain, along with recognition logic, must exist or be created for each distinct algorithm in order for the profiler to assign that algorithm in rule sets.

If the purpose for the environment where a profile job is run is set to Tokenization/Re-Identify, the tokenization algorithm associated with the domain will be assigned instead of the masking algorithm. Each domain referenced by any profile set used in tokenization environments should have a tokenization algorithm value defined.

The Settings -> Domains tab is where you define domains, along with their default masking and tokenization algorithms.

Adding a new domain

At the top of the Domains tab, click Add Domain.
Enter the new Domain Name. The domain name you specify will appear as a menu option on the Inventory screen elsewhere in the Delphix Masking Engine. Domain names must be unique.
Select a default Masking Algorithm for the new domain.
Select a default Tokenization Algorithm for the new domain, if desired.
Click Save. To delete any domain, click the Delete icon to the far right of the domain name.

Editing Existing Domains

Note that updating the default masking or tokenization algorithm assigned to a domain only impacts algorithm assignments made by future profiling job executions, it does not have any immediate affect on algorithm assignments in existing rule sets.