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description: Safeguard sensitive information by creating custom templates that mask sensitive data fields, such as phone numbers and addresses. With Anonymize, you can mask data when sharing sandbox data with other product teams for development, testing, or training. You can also populate empty fields with unique synthetic data. Anonymizing data reduces risk and helps your organization adhere to compliance and privacy regulations.
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# Anonymize

Safeguard sensitive information by creating custom templates that mask sensitive data fields, such as phone numbers and addresses. With Anonymize, you can mask data when sharing sandbox data with other product teams for development, testing, or training. You can also populate empty fields with unique synthetic data. Anonymizing data reduces risk and helps your organization adhere to compliance and privacy regulations.

- **[How Anonymization Works](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Own supports automatic data anonymization capabilities as part of the Anonymize application. This capability allows users to automatically anonymize fields that may contain private,sensitive, or identifiable information. The library that is leveraged is based on Faker.
- **[Anonymize Feature Highlights](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_features.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Anonymize application provides its users with the ability to mask sandbox data. Masking data using Anonymize is accomplished by first creating and then configuring an anonymization template. There are several key Anonymize features that can help you configure the template.
- **[Get Started with Anonymize for Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_get_started.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Anonymize application enables you to create anonymization templates for sandboxes. These templates disguise sensitive information by allowing you to select objects and fields for anonymization. A range of replacement options are available, tailored to the field type, for anonymizing the field data.
- **[Work with Anonymization Templates for Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_working_with_templates.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Anonymization templates in Own’s Anonymize application for Salesforce can be managed through various actions such as creating, configuring, cloning, deleting, and exporting. Objects that are included in both the seeding and anonymization templates can be anonymized as part of the seeding process..
- **[Define and Execute Anonymize Jobs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_execute_job.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    After your anonymize templates are created and configured with the ‌objects and fields, you can proceed to execute anonymize jobs. The Anonymize application enables you to select the service data to be anonymized. The service data to be anonymized can be retrieved either from the live service or from service backups.
- **[Custom Field Replacement Values in Anonymize Templates](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_custom_replacement.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Custom value generation gives you more control to create unique values that comply with regulations or testing prerequisites. Using custom values helps prevent errors when the automatically generated values don't comply with your business logic.
- **[Anonymize Job Reporting](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_job_reports.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Anonymize application processing generates reports about each executed, anonymize job. The Anonymization Report provides an overall summary about anonymization job processing and a breakdown of any specific warnings and errors that occurred. The Salesforce Automations Report reports about the Salesforce automations that were selected to be temporarily disabled for execution of the anonymize job, as well as automations that were not selected. Warnings and errors that occurred are also reported.
- **[Anonymize Limitations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_limitations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Review the limitations that affect the Salesforce data environment before you start working with Anonymize.
- **[Anonymize FAQs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.anonymize_o_faqs.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    If you encounter issues related to Anonymize for Salesforce, the answers to frequently-asked questions can sometimes help you.