What’s New in CellShield Version 2.0
IRI CellShield® is an add-in for Microsoft Excel® that protects the sensitive information in one or more spreadsheets, allowing you to comply with data privacy laws and nullify data breaches. Read More
Proxy-Based Dynamic Data Masking in FieldShield
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
Using DarkShield with Relational Databases
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
Introduction to IRI DarkShield
What is DarkShield?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
How to Find and Mask PII in Elasticsearch
Editor’s Note: A newer version of the IRI DarkShield wizard for Elasticsearch data masking is described in this article.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
Connecting MS SQL to IRI Workbench
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
Real-Time Data Masking Using Triggers
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
Connecting IRI Software to Oracle
OverviewOracle 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
Finding and Masking PII in XML and JSON Files…
Editors Note: The content of this article has been superseded as of DarkShield Version 5.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
PII Masking in Amazon S3 Files
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
How to Create a Custom Data Class Validator
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