US Patent 11966498 System and method for at-source masking of sensitive data

This disclosure relates to a system and method for at source data masking and discovery of unique identifier for at-source masking. The method reads a table of production database comprising sensitive column from a source database for at source data masking. A unique identifier column is identified, and a temporary table is created which has three or more columns. Columns of temporary table comprises a sensitive column from the table of production database, a column for masked data of sensitive column and a unique identifier column. Sensitive column of the temporary table is masked using a known masking technique and the original data of the sensitive column and the masked data of the sensitive column is inserted into the temporary table. Finally, the production database is updated with the masked data of the sensitive column.