data masking Archives

Data Class Database Masking

by Claudia Irvine

The Data Class Database Masking Job wizard in IRI Workbench can be used with an IRI FieldShield or Voracity license to mask PII in multiple, disparate database sources that have been previously classified.

Big Data

Masking & Mapping Data in a Snowflake Database

by Donna Davis

Finding and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in Snowflake® data warehouses works the same way in IRI FieldShield® or Voracity® installations as it does for other relational database sources.

Data Transformation

Schema Data Class Search

by Claudia Irvine

The Schema Data Class Search wizard in IRI Workbench (WB) can be used to match data in entire schemas to configured data classes. The search process compares the matchers in the data classes with the data to determine the best match, if any.

Data Masking/Protection

JSON and the Truth it Captures

by Paul Friedland

“Have you stopped speeding?” You could probably object to a leading question like this in court, but what happens when an important question with only a yes or no answer is solicited on a mandatory form, and the response becomes part of an actionable database record?

Data Masking/Protection

Anonymizing Indirect Identifiers to Lower Re-ID Risk

by Claudia Irvine

Quasi-identifiers, or indirect identifiers, are personal attributes that are true about, but not necessarily unique, to an individual. Examples are one’s age or date of birth, race, salary, educational attainment, occupation, marital status and zip code.

Data Masking/Protection

PII (Age/Date) Blurring in IRI FieldShield

by Craig Schien

Adding ‘random noise’ to data through blurring or perturbation is a data common anonymization requirement for researchers and marketers of protected health information (PHI) seeking to comply with the HIPAA Expert Determination Method security rule.

Data Masking/Protection

Native MongoDB Masking (and More)

by Chaitali Mitra

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).

Data Masking/Protection

PII Masking & More in CSV Files

by Chaitali Mitra

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.

Data Masking/Protection

Scoring FieldShield-Masked Data for Re-Identification Risk

by Dmitry Kulakov

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.