Masking PANs in Credit Card Images
Abstract: Previously the DarkShield API for Files could perform black-box redaction of primary account numbers (PANs, also known as CCNs) on credit cards only within defined areas in the image . Read More
Voracity Software Support for Cloud File Stores
Public and private cloud file systems are becoming increasingly popular places for businesses and government agencies to store their data. Several major competitors have arisen in the cloud storage provider space, with Amazon, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform at the top. Read More
Generating Test Data in PDF and Image Files
IRI DarkShield has always had the ability to search through and mask Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive data in unstructured sources like PDF documents and image files. Read More
Using Tensorflow and PyTorch NER Models in DarkShield
Named entity recognition (NER) is a type of machine learning (ML) used to detect named entities within the grammatical context of unstructured text (documents). NER is needed to find things like people names and street addresses, since those do not conform to patterns, nor likely have a match to values in a defined list (lookup set). Read More
Testing with DB Subsets in a Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline
This Jenkins entry is the fourth in a series of articles on the use of IRI test data management software – that masks, synthesizes, or subsets data – to feed safe, referentially correct test data for DevOps to CI/CD environments. Read More
Restoring Masked Values with IRI DarkShield
IRI DarkShield data masking software focuses on discovering and masking sensitive data in a wide variety of sources, including unstructured and semi-structured files, documents, and databases. Read More
Finding and Masking PII in Couchbase, Redis and Solr…
Abstract: This article discusses the use of the IRI DarkShield-Files API for finding and masking PII and other sensitive data in Couchbase, Redis, and Solr NoSQL databases. Read More
Load Balancing & Authenticating DarkShield via NGINX
This article demonstrates methods for balancing work loads and authenticating users of the IRI DarkShield API using free, easily deployed reverse proxy server software from NGINX. Read More
Preprocessing Images to Improve OCR & DarkShield Results
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software is technology that recognizes text within a digital image. OCR is used by IRI DarkShield software to recognize text in standalone or embedded images during PII searching and masking operations. Read More
Find & Mask PII in BigTable, Cosmos and Dynamo…
Abstract: This article covers the use of the IRI DarkShield API for automatically locating and de-identifying PII or other sensitive data in the three major cloud provider NoSQL databases — Google BigTable, MS CosmosDB in Azure, and Amazon DynamoDB. Read More
Automating IRI Jobs Using File Monitoring: A POC
Manually initiating SortCL-compatible jobs in IRI Voracity ETL, CoSort reporting, FieldShield masking, or NextForm migration scenarios is not realistic or productive in environments where data in sources are being added or changed dynamically. Read More