Data Masking/Protection
Note: This article covers the third and most recently available IRI customer method for statically masking or encrypting data in MongoDB through the IRI FieldShield product or IRI Voracity platform (both powered by IRI CoSort v10 and its support of the native MongoDB driver).
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Business Intelligence (BI)
This is the first of a four-part series of blog articles examining the inherent tradeoffs between data processing and information storage and presentation within traditional ETL paradigms — from the ODS to the data lake.
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Business Intelligence (BI)
This is part 2 of a 4-part series on Production Analytics. Processing on Par with Information [Part 1] Processing Real World Data [Part 3] Unifying the Worlds of Information and Processing [Part 4]
Considering data processing as a central component of data management and on a par with databases offers new insights on how to improve overall efficiency and return on investment in traditional data warehouses.
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Data Masking/Protection
This article demonstrates the manipulation of a CSV file using an IRI Workbench wizard. In fact, this example shows how PII can be masked from almost any IRI job wizard.
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Data Masking/Protection
Once a Schema Pattern Search is performed in IRI Workbench (WB), the results can be used by the Schema Pattern Search to Data Class Association wizard to assign data classes to the matched columns.
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Data Masking/Protection
The Schema Pattern Search in IRI Workbench (WB) can be used to retrieve data in an entire schema matching specific patterns. The search process compares the patterns to all the data in every column of the selected data types in every table in every schema selected.
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Data Masking/Protection
One of the biggest concerns with releasing a dataset is the risk that a potential attacker can identify the owners of particular records. Even though masking or removing unique identifiers, like names and Social Security Numbers, can reduce that risk substantially, it may still not be enough.
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Data Masking/Protection
IRI has discussed startpoint security in further detail with the Outlook Series in a segment about data masking.
This article defines what we’d like to call “startpoint security” mostly by virtue of a comparison to endpoint security.
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Big Data
According to Simson L. Garfinkel at the NIST Information Access Division’s Information Technology Laboratory,
De-identification is not a single technique, but a collection of approaches, algorithms, and tools that can be applied to different kinds of data with differing levels of effectiveness.
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Data Migration
Detecting additions and updates to database tables for data replication, ETL, and other incremental data movement goals can be automated in IRI Voracity workflows designed and run in IRI Workbench (WB).
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Business Intelligence (BI)
The IRI Workbench GUI, built on Eclipse™, provides several ways to create data-driven jobs … jobs which are ultimately expressed in self-documenting plain-text scripts and metadata files.
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