Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company

Auditable, Targeted Encryption for Data at Risk

Challenges:

Breaches of data privacy -- where names, addresses, social security numbers, credit card, passport and phone numbers are exposed -- are increasingly prevalent and expensive. But companies and government agencies have to store, transmit and travel with files containing sensitive fields.

What can be done to protect personally identifiable columns in .txt, .csv, .sam, .dat, .xml, ldif, or other files, and comply with privacy laws? It's a huge challenge when these files are in different storage locations and print-outs, and their fields constantly move in and out of databases, spreadsheets, emails, firewalls, and laptops.

Today's non-specific privacy methods -- including file, database, disk and laptop-level encryption -- restrict access to, and the use of, entire files (or more) when it's only certain sensitive fields that need protecting! Your data privacy methods may not only be overkill, but may involve slow, separate steps, or expensive security products and appliances.

Solutions:

Maybe you thought that field encryption for files at risk wasn't an option. But now it is within both IRI's FieldShield package and the CoSort product's SortCL tool. Each includes a 256-bit AES library, support for your own encryption libraries, and a range of other data protection functions for many sequential file formats.

Consider these benefits:

Only sensitive fields need, and thus ought to be, encrypted. The remaining fields in the file, and all the other non-sensitive assets, stay open.	Encryption's incremental computing overhead is nominal; no resources are wasted protecting non-sensitive data.	Field-specific encryption keys and libraries comply with your role-based access controls framework.
You can use its built-in field protection functions along with your own, simultaneously. This allows a mix of anonymization, de-identification, pseudonymization, and masking.	Field security functions can run in the same job (and I/O pass) with transformation and reporting tasks. That's more efficient, and allows you to protect data at the source.	Flat-file, field-level encryptions are independent of hardware or databases. On output, fields are secure until decryption.
You can also decrypt, process, and re-encrypt all in the same job script. This avoids any sensitive field exposure during what would otherwise be intermediary processing steps.	The XML audit trail verifies who protected the data, when, where and how. Remember, you must be able to prove compliance.	Its metadata is shared with the RowGen test data generation tool if you need to create safe test data.

Read on to learn more about the uniquely powerful field encryption functionality for data at risk within both IRI products, FieldShield and CoSort:

• Best Practices
• Superior Algorithms
• Simultaneous Transforms and Reports

See the next steps above to get started with a free 30-day trial, or call us at 1-800-333-SORT if you have any questions.

Click on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse logo above to review the latest breaches of privacy. Notice that names, addresses, telephone and social security numbers -- all data fields CoSort's SortCL tool routinely manipulates -- can now simultaneously be protected in any way you see fit in either SortCL or the new FieldShield.

Would you like to see an example of field encryption of social security numbers in a file? Request the IRI white paper called "Making Data Safe for Compliance and Outsourcing."

Would you like to see the unique benefits of IRI's approach to field encryption? Click here.

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