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Searching and Masking Unstructured File Data with DarkShield

by Craig Schein

This article is part of a series explaining how to use DarkShield and its many functions.

The IRI DarkShield data masking product uses fit-for-purpose facilities in the IRI Workbench IDE to search (classify) and mask (remediate) sensitive ”dark data” (as defined by Gartner) in many semi and unstructured data sources — including JSON, XML,free-form text files, PDFs, MS Office documents, and images.

IRI Workbench

Connecting IBM DB2 with IRI Software

by Chaitali Mitra

Like previous articles in this blog on the connection and configuration of other relational databases with the IRI Voracity data management platform — and its ecosystem products: CoSort, NextForm, FieldShield, DarkShield and RowGen — this article details how to reach DB2 sources.

Data Masking/Protection

Incremental Data Masking and Mapping: Detecting Changes and Updating…

by Claudia Irvine

Incremental data replication, masking, integration (ETL), and other data refresh operations are common in frequently updating database environments. These jobs require the detection of additions and updates to tables.

Business Intelligence (BI)

Improving Insight with IRI Voracity and Cubeware Cockpit

by Devon Kozenieski

Abstract: In previous articles in the business intelligence (BI) section of this blog, IRI has described how wrangling data with the SortCL engine in the IRI CoSort data manipulation product and Voracity data management platform speeds time to data visualization, and thus actionable insight, in BI tools.

IRI Workbench

Connecting to Informix (IDS12 DB) in IRI Workbench

by Carlos Hernandez

This article documents the connections necessary in IRI Workbench and 64-bit CoSort-compatible runtime environments to work with 64-bit Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) v12 table sources and targets.

Data Masking/Protection

What’s New in CellShield Version 2.0

by Devon Kozenieski

IRI CellShield® is an add-in for Microsoft Excel® that protects the sensitive information in one or more spreadsheets, allowing you to comply with data privacy laws and nullify data breaches.

Data Masking/Protection

Proxy-Based Dynamic Data Masking in FieldShield

by Carson Smith

This article describes a dynamic data masking (DDM) method available to IRI FieldShield premium sites that uses a proxy-based system for intercepting application queries to JDBC-connected databases.

Data Masking/Protection

Using DarkShield with Relational Databases

by Dmitry Kulakov

Introduction

In the previous article, we discussed how IRI DarkShield finds sensitive information using Data Class Search Matchers and masks it consistently using Data Rules.

Data Masking/Protection

Introduction to IRI DarkShield

by Dmitry Kulakov

What is DarkShield?

IRI DarkShield is a data masking tool for finding and de-identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive data in semi-structured and unstructured files and databases.

Data Quality (DQ)

Data Quality Rules in IRI Workbench

by Claudia Irvine

IRI Workbench now contains a section of data cleansing, enrichment, and validation rules called Data Quality Rules for use in IRI CoSort data transformation and IRI Voracity ETL, reporting and data wrangling jobs.

Big Data

Feeding Datadog with Voracity Part 4: Security Analytics from…

by Devon Kozenieski

This article is the fourth in our 4-part series on feeding the Datadog cloud analytic platform with different kinds of data from IRI Voracity operations. It focuses on visualizing search logs from the DarkShield unstructured data masking product (also a Voracity component) in Datadog for security analytics.

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