Annex A 8.11
New in 2022Data masking
Data masking is used in line with the access control policy and business requirements, taking applicable legislation into account.
What an assessor looks for
New in 2022. The obvious application is non-production environments. Show what is masked, how, and who can reverse it.
Where it usually fails
Test environments are populated with a copy of production data, unmasked, and accessible to a wider group than production.
Classification
- Theme
- A.8 Technological
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- None. Introduced in the 2022 revision.
Control number and title are identifiers used as references. The classification above is our own analysis, aligned to the shape of the ISO 27002 attribute model rather than reproduced from it, and no text from the standard appears on this page. Last reviewed 2026-08-03.
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