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
Masking PHI in DICOM Files with DarkShield (API)
Abstract: With hundreds of thousands of medical imaging devices in use, DICOM is one of the most widely deployed healthcare messaging standards in the world; billions of DICOM images are currently in use for clinical care. Read More
Masked Test Data in an AWS CodePipeline
This article demonstrates how to automate the execution of IRI DarkShield data masking jobs from SSH commands run from within the AWS CodePipeline to produce fit-for-purpose test data in the DevOps process. Read More
Connecting to Vertica in IRI Workbench
Like other articles in this blog on the connection and configuration of 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 Vertica sources. Read More
Finding and Masking PHI in HL7 and X12 Files
Editors Note: This article demonstrates the discovery and de-identification of Protected Health Information (PHI) in EDI files using the DarkShield API for Files. If you are interested in using the fit-for-purpose search/mask graphical wizards in DarkShield instead, see this article on HL7 masking, this article on X12 masking, or this article on FHIR masking. Read More
Creating CSV, JSON, XML and RDB Test Data
This article demonstrates how to synthesize and write data to CSV, JSON, and XML files, plus an Oracle table all at once via the IRI RowGen New Test Data Job wizard in IRI Workbench. Read More
FieldShield PII Discovery Charts
Among the PII data profiling and data discovery tools in the IRI FieldShield data masking product is an interactive data visualization panel, or dashboard, for PII search results. Read More