MENTIS, the pioneer in data and application security software, has been rated as an innovator with top scores in sensitive data discovery and masking in the 2019 Test Data Management Market Update from Bloor Research. The report is an outcome of an in-depth platform assessment and a competitive comparison completed by the Bloor Research team that focused on market trends and assessed vendor capabilities in sensitive data discovery, data masking, synthetic data generation, test data provisioning, data virtualization and ease of use of in test data management.

In addition, Bloor Research in their MENTIS InBrief report says, “MENTIS is a broadly capable data security platform and test data management solution. It provides excellent, comprehensive data discovery capabilities as well as flexible static data masking that can be utilized in several different ways (notably, in conjunction with dynamic data masking). If you are interested in achieving test data management via subsetting, MENTIS should definitely be on your shortlist.”

“MENTIS was started with a vision to protect sensitive data in both non-production and production environments. The proliferation of extensive internal and external access to these environments always create huge data protection risks. MENTIS’ discovery and masking solutions can discover and protect sensitive data, while enabling development and testing teams to access usable data for their purposes.”

Rajesh Parthasarathy, MENTIS’ founder, and CEO

For Test Data Management environments, MENTIS’ iDiscover and iScramble (static data masking), along with blended data masking and iSubset, are the essentials to reduce risk.

Bloor called MENTIS discovery capabilities excellent, and market leading. “MENTIS goes further, in our opinion, than any other supplier in its facilities for discovering sensitive data,” said Philip Howard, Bloor Research Director, Information Management. “We are particularly impressed with the Discovery capabilities offered by MENTIS. This, combined with robust masking capabilities and relative ease of use, plus the add-on capabilities of iRetire, makes MENTIS the leading technical provider of solutions that purely offer subsetting.”

Suresh Sundaram, Executive Director at MENTIS, added, “These reports validate MENTIS’ unique positioning and success in the test data management space. We have been a visionary in understanding the complexities in securing test data and are proud of our successful deployments in complex global enterprises.”

About Bloor

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Bloor helps companies and organizations navigate complex business situations, converting challenges into new opportunities for real growth, profitability, and impact and enables organizations to choose the optimal technology solutions for their for their success.

About MENTIS

Founded in 2004, MENTIS was one of the first companies in what was then a fledgling data-security market. Guided by a visionary founder with a deep grounding in both business and technology, MENTIS immediately began to innovate and has never since stopped. Known for its responsiveness to the moving target that is risk and compliance, MENTIS continues to bring powerful products to the market, the result of the company’s deep analysis of new trends in risk, along with a collaboration with its customers to assess and weigh their current challenges.

The company’s latest release makes the MENTIS platform the only integrated end-to-end platform where discovery, masking, monitoring, and retirement of sensitive data are available for both Non-Production and Production environments, and also now support both structured and unstructured data, whether in the cloud or on premise. Its segregation of duties functionalities means MENTIS also allows stakeholders across the IT, business, and security and compliance groups to collaborate to achieve comprehensive and consistent data security.

MENTIS helps protects the data of some of the most iconic industries and institutions in the world. Its customer roster includes internet commerce pioneers and national airlines; higher education institutions ranging from the Ivy League to Land Grant schools; international industrial behemoths and retail giants; and global leaders in the highly regulated financial services and healthcare industries.

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