Anonymize Salesforce data during restore

Our platform supports advanced data anonymization options when restoring Salesforce data — ideal for use cases like sandbox seeding, data masking for development environments, or restoring data with sensitive fields anonymized.

These anonymization methods are configurable per field and can be applied in any environment, including production, sandboxes, or other custom environments of your choosing.

Available anonymization options

You can choose from the following anonymization methods:

• Data redaction (Nullify Values) 
  Replaces the field value with null.  
  
  Example: Original: john.doe@example.com → Redacted: null 
  
  Supported for all nullable fields

• Hashing 
  Replaces the field value with a hashed string, making it unreadable and irreversible, while maintaining uniqueness. 
  
  Example:  Original: john.doe@example.com → Hashed: a93f5be321d9... 
  
  Supported Field Types:
• Text
• Text Area
• Long Text Area

• Data shuffling (Default method) 
  Randomly replaces each field value with another value from the same field across different records. This keeps data realistic while anonymizing the source. 
  
  Example: Record 1: "Alice" and Record 2: "Bob" → Record 1: "Bob" and Record 2: "Alice" 
  Supported for all anonymizable fields.

Note: Shuffling is disabled automatically when over 1,000,000 records are selected to avoid performance issues.

Field eligibility and behavior

• Fields that are non-nullable (such as Reference or ID fields) cannot be anonymized. The checkbox will be disabled with a tooltip explaining why.
• If a field supports only one method (e.g., redaction or hashing), the method will be pre-filled and locked.
• If multiple methods are supported, shuffling will be selected by default, but users can change it via dropdown.
• Clicking "Anonymize all" applies the default anonymization method to all fields marked for restore. You can still adjust individual field settings as needed.

Summary and review

During the Summary step of a restore or seed job, you’ll see a detailed list of all anonymization choices made. This helps confirm everything is set up the way you want before continuing.