Anonymize your PostgreSQL databases efficiently with a robust engine fully compatible with pgcrypto. DOT Anonymizer ensures consistent, secure, and compliant data across all your environments.
Why anonymize your PostgreSQL data?
Your PostgreSQL databases contain critical information: personal data, sensitive information, customer history, business data…
When copied into non-production environments (testing, development, training), they can become a major source of risk.
Anonymization allows you to:
- Prevent any re-identification of individuals
- Drastically reduce the attack surface in case of a data leak
- Comply with GDPR requirements
- Deliver secure Dev/Test environments
- Preserve the functional consistency of anonymized data
DOT Anonymizer addresses each of these challenges precisely.
What DOT Anonymizer does for PostgreSQL
DOT Anonymizer natively integrates PostgreSQL-specific capabilities, including support for the pgcrypto module, which provides a set of cryptographic functions usable in anonymization projects.
Native PostgreSQL support
DOT Anonymizer connects directly to your PostgreSQL database to:
- Scan tables
- Identify sensitive columns
- Apply consistent anonymization transformations
- Preserve relationships and functional properties
Key benefit: anonymized but still usable data, enabling functional testing and reproducible analysis.
Support for PostgreSQL cryptographic features
These capabilities allow you to apply:
- Reversible encryption (with key)
- Irreversible hashing
- Digital signatures
- Cryptographic masking
Anonymize your PostgreSQL data in 3 steps
1) Sensitive data discovery
Before anonymizing, you need to know where the PII is. The discovery phase identifies tables and columns containing personal or confidential data. Result: an actionable mapping with priorities to guide your strategy. With DOT Anonymizer Data Discovery, automatically detect PII in your PostgreSQL schemas.
2) Configuring anonymization rules
Based on this mapping, you configure your rules: pseudonymization or irreversible anonymization, partial masking (e.g., emails), realistic replacement (names, addresses), controlled synthetic data generation, hashing/irreversibility for identifiers. All rules are applied while respecting integrity constraints.
Key points fully managed by DOT Anonymizer:
- Foreign keys: maintain link consistency between tables (customer ↔ orders ↔ payments)
- Intentional duplicates: CRM and ERP entries must remain aligned
- Application formats: preserve structures such as user.name@domain.tld or +33XXXXXXXXX
- Performance: batch processing
3) Control, validation, and automation
Once rules are applied, DOT Anonymizer provides post-processing controls and execution reports. You can then industrialize the process: integrate anonymization into CI/CD pipelines or schedule regular environment refreshes.
Manage your PostgreSQL anonymization via the CLI
From your terminal, execute anonymization plans, orchestrate projects, and automate the entire workflow with just a few commands.
With the CLI, you can:
- Execute anonymizations, discovery plans, and right-to-erasure processes
- Explore your configuration: list rules, engines, projects, packages, templates, and deletion detections
- Import projects from .json files or .zip archives
- Export projects, packages, and discovery plans to .json or .zip
- Monitor execution in real-time on your servers
Integrations & Use Cases
- Creation of secure Dev/Test environments
- Sending anonymized extracts to IT service providers
- Reproducing incidents with realistic data
- Preparing datasets for Machine Learning
- Reducing internal data leakage risks
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