Background
For providing backups for the LemonEdge teams, you may be in a position where you do not want to share any sensitive information. For this very reason LemonEdge has an 'Obfuscate' command. Obfuscate will turn your data into gibberish, so any sensitive information is lost.
WARNING:
BACK UP YOUR DATABASE AND DO NOT USE THE LIVE SYSTEM.
This a dangerous command that will render your data useless.
Consult with technical users or the LemonEdge team before actioning anything in this guide.
Parameters setup
Button Setup
The button isn’t available visible by default. Like the ‘Truncate’ button, you need to add it to the menu,. This is done in the permissions screen. Once available then you can click the command:
Obfuscation Parameters
If you select add standard string fields, LemonEdge will add the following:
The above defaults contain the key fields for the main objects of the system. Object Entities covers Issuers, AIV’s, Blockers, SPV’s, Funds, Partners, Partner terms, Lots (alias Instruments).
If you feel other fields should be added, then feel free to do so above – let me know if you think they should be part of the “standard” and I’ll add them.
A lot of text fields are left unhcanged, as the system would be unusable if all the config/queries/etc were renamed. None of those things have client sensitive data.
Observations: Securities might be added to the list of entities for which name are obfuscated as it sometimes reflect the name of the Issuer.
You may need to add your own custom objects to this list too.
Running the task
Once you’ve saved the above you can run the task:
LemonEdge will force you to jump through multiple warnings that this is irreversible and will be run on the live database you’re connected to!
So, the process should be:
- Backup the db
- Ensure all users are out
- Run the task
- Backup the obfuscated db
- Send the obfuscated db to us
- Restore the system from the original backup
- Connect the services again
You’ll also need to tick both these options after the warnings:
Results
LemonEdge will run through all of the objects and properties that you selected, and fill them with random strings. The resulting data will look similar to this:
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