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Auditable, Targeted Data Encryption Software

Challenges:

Data security breaches -- where names, addresses, social security numbers, credit card, passport and phone numbers are exposed -- are increasingly prevalent and expensive. Data security tools and solutions abound, but companies and government agencies still have to store, transmit and access tables and files containing sensitive fields.

It has been difficult to find a general-purpose data security tool that encrypts personally identifying information (PII), or to build a solution to encrypt data across multiple database table and flat file formats (.txt, .csv, .sam, .dat, .xml, ldif, etc.). A data encryption tool that can prevent data breaches and comply with privacy laws like HIPPA can also be expensive, making an effective data security tool acquisition impractical.

Sensitive data appears in different storage locations and print-outs, and the PII fields constantly move in and out of databases, spreadsheets, emails, firewalls, and laptops. Today's non-specific data security tools and methods -- including network, database, disk, file, and laptop-level encryption tools -- restrict access to everything, 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 a single data encryption software solution that targets fields in both tables and files at risk did not exist. IRI has two data protection software packages that encrypt data at the field level: FieldShield and CoSort. Each includes 256-bit AES, FIPS-compliant OpenSSL, and GPG libraries, support for your own encryption routines, and a range of other data security functions for many sequential file formats.

Consider these benefits:

Only sensitive fields need, and thus ought to be, encrypted. The remaining fields in the table or 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.	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
• Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE)
• Simultaneous Transforms and Reports

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