This article describes a dynamic data masking (DDM) method available to IRI FieldShield premium sites that uses a proxy-based system for intercepting application queries to JDBC-connected databases. Read More
Editor’s Note: The content in this article has been deprecated with the release of IRI DarkShield Version 5 in 2024. To see how you can search and mask data in RDBs with the DarkShield GUI now, see this article. Read More
IRI DarkShield is a data masking tool for classifying, searching, and de-identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive data in structured, semi-structured and unstructured sources. Read More
Editor’s Note: A newer version of the IRI DarkShield wizard for Elasticsearch data masking is described in this article.
Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine that has an HTTP interface and stores its data in schema-free JSON documents. Read More
Whether your SQL Server database is on-premise or in a cloud enviroment like Azure, its data is accessible for movement and manipulation in IRI Workbench-supported products like CoSort, FieldShield, DarkShield, NextForm and RowGen, or the IRI Voracity platform which includes them all. Read More
Previous articles in the IRI blog detailed the static data masking of new database data using /INCLUDE logic or /QUERY syntax in scheduled IRI FieldShield job scripts that required changes in column values to detect updates. Read More
Oracle database connection issues can be the most frustrating part of application installation and implementation. The many options available with its JDBC and ODBC drivers can be daunting. Read More
Editors Note: The content of this article has been superseded as of DarkShield Version 5. Please refer to this article instead for the current methodology using data classification and location matchers for XML and JSON files. Read More
Just as users of the IRI FieldShield data masking tool can mask personally identifiable information (PII) in flat files held in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, IRI DarkShield users can now find and mask PII in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured files stored in S3, too. Read More
Abstract: This is the second of a two-part series detailing data class validation in IRI Workbench. The first article, here, provides an overview of the validation scripts and how to use them in a data discovery or classification job. Read More
In a previous article, we detailed a method for securing the encryption keys (passphrases) used in IRI FieldShield data masking jobs through the Azure Key Vault. Read More