One of the first and most popular things that IRI Chakra Max users want to do is monitor database accesses and activities as they happen. The information displayed is helpful in assessing resource needs and security vulnerabilities.
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One of the most important, and powerful, features of the IRI Chakra Max database firewall is its ability to audit access and activity from all types of connections.
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Note: This article covers the third and most recently available IRI customer method for statically masking or encrypting data in MongoDB through the IRI FieldShield product or IRI Voracity platform (both powered by IRI CoSort v10 and its support of the native MongoDB driver).
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This article demonstrates the manipulation of a CSV file using an IRI Workbench wizard. In fact, this example shows how PII can be masked from almost any IRI job wizard.
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Once a Schema Pattern Search is performed in IRI Workbench (WB), the results can be used by the Schema Pattern Search to Data Class Association wizard to assign data classes to the matched columns.
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The Schema Pattern Search in IRI Workbench (WB) can be used to retrieve data in an entire schema matching specific patterns. The search process compares the patterns to all the data in every column of the selected data types in every table in every schema selected.
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One of the biggest concerns with releasing a dataset is the risk that a potential attacker can identify the owners of particular records. Even though masking or removing unique identifiers, like names and Social Security Numbers, can reduce that risk substantially, it may still not be enough.
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IRI has discussed startpoint security in further detail with the Outlook Series in a segment about data masking.
This article defines what we’d like to call “startpoint security” mostly by virtue of a comparison to endpoint security.
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According to Simson L. Garfinkel at the NIST Information Access Division’s Information Technology Laboratory,
De-identification is not a single technique, but a collection of approaches, algorithms, and tools that can be applied to different kinds of data with differing levels of effectiveness.
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The IRI Workbench GUI, built on Eclipse™, provides several ways to create data-driven jobs … jobs which are ultimately expressed in self-documenting plain-text scripts and metadata files.
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The Multi Table Protection Job wizard in IRI FieldShield can mask personally identifiable information (PII) in database columns that are part of a foreign key relationship, and thus preserve referential integrity between the tables.
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