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Salesforce have ability to display the secured data in encrypted format. It is salesforce out of box functionality. You can create new Text(Encrypted) using “Custom Fields & Relationships” on the object.

Advantages of SSN Field Encryption :
  • User can’t see the customer full SSN/CreditCard number
  • If user really want to see user profile have option to enable. Profile permission is “View Encrypted Data”
Disadvantages of SSN Field Encryption :
  • Can’t use encrypted field in the report/listview/global search filter criteria
  • Can’t use use in SOQL query where condition. You will get below error while using encrypted field in the query filter condition