Automated PII Masking

Sending raw PII to an AI agent, a third-party integration, or a developer's local machine is a compliance exposure, and column-level tagging doesn't scale as your schema evolves. Safe Boundary detects and masks PII in query results automatically, at the proxy layer, using AI classification that requires no manual annotation.

Why it matters

PII leaves the database the moment you query it

Once a row crosses the wire, it lands in application logs, AI agent prompts, error trackers, support tickets, and developer laptops. Every one of those surfaces becomes part of your regulated perimeter, and most of them were never designed to hold PHI, payment data, or personal identifiers. Safe Boundary fixes the problem at the source by masking sensitive values inside the result stream, so the data on the wire is already safe by the time anything downstream sees it.

Detects PII without column tagging

Email addresses, names, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and SSNs are identified in query results by an AI classification model running in the proxy. You do not need to tag columns in your schema or maintain a data dictionary.

No migrations, no decorators, no per-column tagging. You describe categories in policy; Safe Boundary finds them in data. New columns and new tables are protected the moment they ship.

Name and SSN detected

AI classification identifies sensitive identifiers without any manual column tagging.

Email address inline

Free-form text columns and JSON blobs are scanned as the query result streams through.

Category and confidence

Every match carries a category tag and a confidence score so policies stay explainable.

Masks data before it leaves the database layer

Masking happens in the proxy response path, before query results reach the application or AI agent. The underlying data in the database is never touched. Applications see masked values; your database retains the original records.

Choose deterministic tokens to keep joins working, format-preserving masks to keep UIs happy, or hard redaction for the strictest categories. Everything is driven by policy, evaluated per query, and logged for audit.

Replaced at the proxy layer

Masking happens in result rows before they reach the client, the database itself never changes.

Deterministic tokens

Use stable pseudonyms so joins, aggregates, and analytics still work on masked values.

Reversible for reviewers

Privileged identities can unmask audited rows on demand without granting broad access.
Identity-aware redaction

Scoped per identity and policy

Masking rules are applied per user identity, agent identity, or role. A privileged analyst can receive unmasked results under a specific policy while all other identities see masked output, no schema changes required to manage this distinction.

Human identity aware

Masks apply differently to analysts, developers, and customer support, without rewriting the app.

Agent-aware policies

Each AI agent and automation carries its own identity and its own masking contract.

Per-role redaction

Stack policies by role, environment, and data category, evaluated for every single query.

Compliance evidence

Audit-ready classification tags

Every masking decision ships with structured evidence, category, column, confidence, identity, and policy. Auditors get a full, queryable trail; engineers get a log that explains exactly why a value was redacted.

Every masked field carries a classification tag, a confidence score, and a pointer to the policy that fired. That audit payload is exposed via API and streamed to your logging pipeline, ready for compliance review or SOC investigations.

Category, column, confidence, policy, and outcome are captured for each masked field.

Stream classification events to Splunk, Datadog, or S3 for long-term retention.

Tags map cleanly to regulatory categories so audit evidence writes itself.

Preview how a new policy would affect yesterday’s traffic before you turn it on.

Enable PII masking on your database, no schema annotations, no code changes.

Free for 1 database. No credit. No Time limit. Full AI SQL Injection prevention.