Data Masking/Protection
Abstract: Previously the DarkShield API for Files could perform black-box redaction of primary account numbers (PANs, also known as CCNs) on credit cards only within defined areas in the image . Read More
Data Masking/Protection
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
Data Masking/Protection
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
Data Masking/Protection
Editors Note: This articles covers data anonymization as a form of data masking for privacy protection. In particular, it covers the concepts of quasi-identifiers and re-identification risk and the use of HIPAA data de-identification standards for protecting sensitive data in research through the use of anonymizing techniques like age blurring and demographic attribute blurring in conjunction with re-ID risk scoring. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Editor’s Note: Note that this article refers to older but still supported methods for obfuscating PII elements like dates of birth and ages in IRI FieldShield. Read More