Data Breaches Are At An All Time High!

by lydiab on March 20, 2012

Data breaches are becoming more and more prevalent and common in the United States today.   Did you know that as many as 72,000 documented data breaches occur every day?  Concerns about identity theft have consumers living under constant fear of exposing their credit card or personal information especially online. What’s so disgruntling is the [...]

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Delivering Business Intelligence Faster

by lydiab on January 20, 2012

What is business intelligence, and why is the fast creation and delivery of business intelligence  important? Business intelligence refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data.  It includes the technologies of reporting, analytical processing, data mining, analytics and benchmarking among other disciplines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence. The ultimate purpose behind business intelligence (BI) activities is [...]

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Unload Big Data from Oracle et al

January 12, 2012

One of the main concerns for companies who need to unload big data from Oracle, DB2, Sybase and SQL Server is the need for speed.  We are talking about terabytes of data here. A high-performance unload utility can help increase a company’s productivity levels by making data accessible in different forms for different platforms. Most of [...]

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What is Data Pseudonymization?

December 28, 2011

This blog thread deals with pseudonymization as one method of de-identifying or anonymizing sensitive data. The unauthorized use or misuse of our personally identifying information (or PII) — such as name,  social security number, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, place of birth, etc. — can result in identify theft and other crimes related to [...]

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Data Masking and Data Encryption Are Not the Same Things

November 2, 2011

Data Masking and Encryption Are Not the Same Things.  It is a common misconception in the industry to use the terms data masking and data encryption interchangeably to mean the same things.  Data masking and data encryption are two distinct processes as we will see in this article. Data masking is the process of protecting and obscuring sensitive data [...]

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New CoSort 9.5 Features

October 31, 2011

CoSort 9.5 is Here! New Release Supports Unicode Data and ODBC in Eclipse IDE After more than two years of development since the release of CoSort® 9.1.3, IRI is now shipping CoSort 9.5.1 on Unix, Linux and Windows. CoSort uses a fourth-generation data definition and manipulation language called SortCL to transform, convert, protect, and report [...]

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