The names of IRI software products and how they run have at times been a source of mystery, or even confusion, to the uninitiated. This article spells out the pieces and clarifies their interplay, providing a quick primer for prospective users, partners, and new industry analysts. Read More
Abstract: IRI has partnered with Windocks to provide an on-demand, test-ready virtualized repository that delivers masked, subsetted or synthesized databases in seconds for Docker containers, conventional instances, or workstations. Read More
Like previous articles in this blog on the connection and configuration of other 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 DB2 sources. Read More
Incremental data replication, masking, integration (ETL), and other data refresh operations are common in frequently updating database environments. These jobs require the detection of additions and updates to tables. Read More
This article documents the connections necessary in IRI Workbench and 64-bit CoSort-compatible runtime environments to work with 64-bit Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) v12 table sources and targets. Read More
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
Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine that has an HTTP interface and stores its data in schema-free JSON documents. Unfortunately, a spate of costly and painful breaches of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) continue to plague online Elasticsearch databases:
Were all the PII or other sensitive information in these DBs masked however, successful hacks and development copies may not be problematic. Read More
Whether your SQL Server database is on-premise or in a cloud platform 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
Connecting to a database like Oracle can be the most frustrating part of application installation and configuration. The many options available with JDBC and ODBC drivers can be daunting. Read More
Once they have made their database connections, IRI FieldShield and IRI DarkShield users both have a wide range of options for classifying, finding, and de-identifying sensitive data across one or more schemas. Read More
