Embodiments include a method for data masking such as receiving, by a first data masking component, data including unmasked data for a first attribute, the first data masking component including a data set and a masking algorithm; generating, by the first data masking component, masked attribute data for the first attribute by applying the masking algorithm to the unmasked data associated with the first attribute using the data set; and replacing, by the first data masking component, the data for the first attribute in the first data with the masked attribute data.