Redacting PII for Data Privacy
Editors Note: This article covers redacting PII and sensitive information. Specifically, it explains the full or partial column/field redaction of strings in structured databases or flat files. Read More
FieldShield v3: More Data Masking Functions and Cross-Table Protection…
Summary
The protection of sensitive information and data loss prevention (DLP) are critical elements of modern data governance. IRI’s FieldShield is a uniquely versatile tool for securing sensitive fields in database tables and flat files with a choice of protections that operate according to business rules to de-identify or remove individualizing characteristics, without cutting off access to the rest of the data or changing their basic appearance. Read More
Database data masking
Protecting Data at Rest and in Motion
Database applications that update and query tables may need to secure data going into, or being retrieved from, those tables. Read More
Selecting Personally Identifiable Information for Secure Queries (FieldShield Filters)
In the course of protecting personally identifiable information (PII) moving into and out of databases, FieldShield and CoSort typically externalize protection of the full table(s) they connect to. Read More
Data Masking: Obscuring Dates and Ages
Editor’s Note: Note that this article refers to older but still supported methods for obfuscating PII elements like dates of birth and ages in IRI FieldShield. Read More
Data Masking: Masking Social Security and other National IDs
Data masking is one method to combat the nearly 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (PII) that occur every day. With data privacy breaches still at unacceptably high levels, how can companies protect PII such as their national ID numbers across their myriad sources of data? 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
Encryption Key Management and Why You Should Care
Encryption key management is one of the most important “basics” for an organization dealing with security and privacy protection. Major data losses and regulatory compliance requirements have prompted a dramatic increase in the use of encryption within corporate data centers. 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
What is Data Pseudonymization?
This article deals with pseudonymization as one method of de-identifying or anonymizing sensitive data. IRI publishes more in-depth information on the topic in its learning center article on pseudonymization here. Read More
Data Masking and Encryption Are Different [video]
It is a common mistake to refer to data masking and data encryption interchangeably to mean the same things. While field-level encryption is considered one of many possible “data masking” functions, we define data masking and encryption as technically distinct processes below. Read More