Case Study: a leading education provider achieves automated data masking and stronger FERPA compliance with Imperva Camouflage

Leading Education Provider saves over $750K with Imperva

A leading online education provider, which operates accredited universities in the United States, needed to protect student data in non-production environments to comply with FERPA legislation. Their challenge was to securely de-identify this personally identifiable information (PII) used for development and testing without compromising data integrity. They chose Imperva and its Camouflage data masking solution to address this.

The Imperva solution used a discovery feature to pinpoint PII, which dramatically reduced the number of databases requiring masking from over 75 to just 35, saving over $750,000 in time and resources. Imperva also implemented an automated change audit process and provided ongoing remote consulting. This resulted in a more than 50% reduction in masking effort and a solution that exceeded the client's expectations for security and compliance.