Whether you’re a software development team lead at a prestigious financial institution assigned to redact personally identifiable information (PII) before releasing the next bankruptcy report, or you're part of a development shop that has just been contracted by a large healthcare organization to help update their systems to meet HIPAA requirements, chances are you’ve been asked to obfuscate sensitive data.
Protecting sensitive data is not an uncommon requirement when building applications. In a recent survey, 71% of companies indicated they utilized encryption for some of their data in transit; 53% utilized encryption for some of their data in storage.