Obfuscation & Anonymization

To configure obfuscation and anonymization of the extracted data and screen captures, you must have the necessary permissions. To customise obfuscation and anonymization, you don't necessarily need to be an administrator.

Data obfuscation is the process of altering extracted data and screen captures such that it is readable only by you as an authorised individual and not by unauthorised users. Through data anonymization, you can encrypt the extracted data and screen captures to reduce the risk of unintended disclosure.

Obfuscation&Anonymization page

The first time you create and configure the Task Mining project, you must complete the privacy settings by clicking the Confirm button of the warning at the top of the page before you proceed to classify the activity data and contextual information.

Obfuscation&Anonymization confirm

Note: If you decide to anonymize or obfuscate data, you must first proceed with privacy settings and then confirm the warning.

In the Contextual Data section in the Obfuscation and Anonymization tab, you can see the list of applications and web pages recorded by TM Agent. To view the details of the recorded data and screen captures of an application or webpage, click the Expand icon next to the respective application or webpage in the Contextual Data section.

The functionalities available in the Obfuscation & Anonymization page includes:

Obfuscating or anonymizing values

In the visibility column, you can choose whether to obfuscate or anonymize any value in the contextual data.

Visibility menu

To obfuscate or anonymize a value, do the following:

  1. Click Show page properties icon to view the contextual data of the selected page.
  2. Select Anonymized or Obfuscated from the Visibility drop-down list to anonymize or obfuscate the value.
  3. Click the Save button.

You can view the changes applied to the screen captured in the Details section.

Select page details

Applying timeframe

You can update the timeframe to show the recorded data of interest in a targeted manner. Applying timeframe helps you to analyse a limited amount of data. The timeframe displays a notification when the number of recorded events reaches the limit of 1000.

Timeframe button

To edit the timeframe:

  1. Click Data analysis info icon.
  2. In the Edit analysis timeframe section, toggle Custom timeframe to on.
  3. Specify the desired Start Date and End Date.
  4. Click Apply button.

Tips: You can also set the timeframe from the Task Classification and Contextual Data Classification pages.

Applying filters

You can use filters to limit the data shown in the Obfuscation & Anonymization list.

Apply filters

Search pages by value

To search for a page by providing the contextual value:

  1. Click add icon.
  2. Choose any of the following search parameters from the drop-down list.
    • Select Value to filter the pages, which contains the same contextual value.
    • Select Contains value to filter the pages, which contains a substring value.
    • Select Credit card to view the pages that contains data related to a credit card number.
  3. Specify the value.
  4. Click Apply filters button.

You can find all the pages with the specified value in the list.

Tips: You can click Delete search field icon to delete any entry in the Search pages by value fields.

Filter by application

To filter the recorded data by specifying the application name:

  1. Select the required application from the drop-down list.
  2. Click Apply filters button.

Filter by page

To filter the recorded data by specifying the web page:

  1. Select the required page from the drop-down list.
  2. Click Apply filters button.