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Dynamic data masking end-to-end example

The following is an end-to-end example showing how you can create and attach masking policies to a column. These policies let users access a column and see different values, depending on the degree of obfuscation in the policies attached to their roles. You must be a superuser or have the sys:secadmin role to run this example.

Creating a masking policy

First, create a table and populate it with credit card values.

--create the table         
CREATE TABLE credit_cards (
  customer_id INT,
  credit_card TEXT
);

--populate the table with sample values
INSERT INTO credit_cards
VALUES
  (100, '4532993817514842'),
  (100, '4716002041425888'),
  (102, '5243112427642649'),
  (102, '6011720771834675'),
  (102, '6011378662059710'),
  (103, '373611968625635')
;

--run GRANT to grant permission to use the SELECT statement on the table
GRANT SELECT ON credit_cards TO PUBLIC;

--create two users
CREATE USER regular_user WITH PASSWORD '1234Test!';

CREATE USER analytics_user WITH PASSWORD '1234Test!';

--create the analytics_role role and grant it to analytics_user
--regular_user does not have a role
CREATE ROLE analytics_role;

GRANT ROLE analytics_role TO analytics_user;

Next, create a masking policy to apply to the analytics role.

--create a masking policy that fully masks the credit card number
CREATE MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_full
WITH (credit_card VARCHAR(256))
USING ('000000XXXX0000'::TEXT);

--create a user-defined function that partially obfuscates credit card data
CREATE FUNCTION REDACT_CREDIT_CARD (credit_card TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT IMMUTABLE
AS $$
    import re
    regexp = re.compile("^([0-9]{6})[0-9]{5,6}([0-9]{4})")
 
    match = regexp.search(credit_card)
    if match != None:
        first = match.group(1)
        last = match.group(2)
    else:
        first = "000000"
        last = "0000"
    
    return "{}XXXXX{}".format(first, last)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

--create a masking policy that applies the REDACT_CREDIT_CARD function
CREATE MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_partial
WITH (credit_card VARCHAR(256))
USING (REDACT_CREDIT_CARD(credit_card));

--confirm the masking policies using the associated system views
SELECT * FROM svv_masking_policy;

SELECT * FROM svv_attached_masking_policy;   

Attaching a masking policy

Attach the masking policies to the credit card table.

--attach mask_credit_card_full to the credit card table as the default policy
--all users will see this masking policy unless a higher priority masking policy is attached to them or their role
ATTACH MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_full
ON credit_cards(credit_card)
TO PUBLIC;

--attach mask_credit_card_partial to the analytics role
--users with the analytics role can see partial credit card information
ATTACH MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_partial
ON credit_cards(credit_card)
TO ROLE analytics_role
PRIORITY 10;

--confirm the masking policies are applied to the table and role in the associated system view
SELECT * FROM svv_attached_masking_policy;

--confirm the full masking policy is in place for normal users by selecting from the credit card table as regular_user
SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regular_user;

SELECT * FROM credit_cards;

--confirm the partial masking policy is in place for users with the analytics role by selecting from the credit card table as analytics_user
SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION analytics_user;

SELECT * FROM credit_cards;

Altering a masking policy

The following section shows how to alter a dynamic data masking policy.

--reset session authorization to the default
RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION;

--alter the mask_credit_card_full policy
ALTER MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_full
USING ('00000000000000'::TEXT);	
	
--confirm the full masking policy is in place after altering the policy, and that results are altered from '000000XXXX0000' to '00000000000000'
SELECT * FROM credit_cards;

Detaching and dropping a masking policy

The following section shows how to detach and drop masking policies by removing all dynamic data masking policies from the table.

--reset session authorization to the default
RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION;

--detach both masking policies from the credit_cards table
DETACH MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_full 
ON credit_cards(credit_card) 
FROM PUBLIC;

DETACH MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_partial 
ON credit_cards(credit_card) 
FROM ROLE analytics_role;

--drop both masking policies
DROP MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_full;

DROP MASKING POLICY mask_credit_card_partial;