IRI Reflects on 55 Years of Unix
Unix first operating system was revealed by AT&T Bell Labs engineers Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, and Dennis Ritchie in September 1969 on a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer. Read More
Data Risk Mitigation via Data Masking
Data at Rest is Data at Risk. Mitigate the Risk through Data-Centric Security
Data Risk Mitigation … the need for it is on the rise in the United States and around the globe. Read More
Data Privacy Breaches at All Time High
Data privacy breaches are becoming more and more prevalent and common in the United States today. Â Did you know that on average, as many as 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (i.e. Read More
Delivering Business Intelligence Faster [video]
What is business intelligence, and why is its rapid creation and delivery important?
Business intelligence, or BI, refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data. Read More
CoSort 9.5 … New Features
Editors Note (2019): CoSort Version 10 began shipping in Q3 2018, and is now the general release of the product, as well as the foundation of the IRI Voracity data management platform and other IRI products compatible with SortCL (including FieldShield, NextForm, and RowGen).
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Basic Data Masking and Encryption Demonstration [video]
This demonstration shows how to use IRI FieldShield in Workbench to create a script to protect personally identifying information (PII) at the field level. Masking functions and encryption algorithms are applied to separate fields in a database in the same pass. Read More
FieldShield Data Masking Software Demonstration [video]
IRI FieldShield is a proven, best-in-class data-centric security package for classifying, finding, and masking personally identifying information (PII) and other sensitive data in database columns and flat-file fields. Read More
Introduction to IRI Voracity (Total Data Management) [video]
IRI Voracity is an affordable data management platform that streamlines information architectures and helps enterprises leverage the intrinsic value of data without the cost or complexity of multiple tools. Read More
Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) and Pseudonymization Demonstration [video]
This video is a demonstration of using IRI Workbench to apply format preserving encryption (FPE) and pseudonymization to select fields in a data file to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). Read More
3 Paths to Faster BI & Analytics [video]
Here is an overview of how IRI uses IRI CoSort as a processing engine to deliver faster business intelligence (BI) results and analytic capabilities. As you can see, there are three distinctive processes that are possible. Read More
Big Data Preparation for Analytics – 2015 DBTA Webinar…
BI and analytic tools cannot handle the volume, variety, velocity, and veracity challenges of big data. Today there are many ways to prepare (franchise) that data into the subsets that visualization platforms can ingest, but each typically involves trade-offs between performance, price, and capability. Read More