Data Masking/Protection
A data masking tool can be an effective, if not essential, way to protect sensitive information stored in files and databases. As the numbers of data breaches, lawsuits, and data privacy laws continue to grow, companies must find ways to anonymize production and test data without sacrificing its utility for analytics, research, marketing, or development. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Threats of data breaches and cyberattacks have intensified over the years. In 2025 alone, the total damage cost is already forecast to reach up to $10.5 trillion. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
The IRI DarkShield Command-Line Interface (CLI) offers a powerful way to harness the data discovery and masking capabilities of DarkShield Version 5 outside the graphical IRI Workbench environment. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
The enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) 2023 on August 11, 2023, marks a significant evolution in India’s data protection landscape. This new legislation introduces stringent requirements for the management and protection of personal data and tries to balance individual rights and organizational responsibilities. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
IRI Voracity is a data management platform that we have previously talked about at some length. It offers capabilities for data integration, data governance, data masking, test data management, data quality, data cleansing, data migration, and so on (and on, and on). Read More
Big Data
As you may already know, IRI DarkShield produces search annotations and masking results with every operation. These log files can contain a large volume of data, including:
metadata about the file/database source(s) what data was found as a match which matcher matched the data how the data was masked (if it was) where matches occurred within each file or database. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
This article discusses the Directory Data Class Search wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield. This data discovery jobs built in the wizard scan directories that you select on local or networked nodes to: 1) log and chart PII it finds; and, 2) classify the data, in flat files. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
The New Data Class Map DB Masking Job wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield creates IRI FieldShield job (.scl) scripts which, when run, will mask one or more tables in one or more schemas. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
The Schema Data Class Search wizard in IRI Workbench (WB) designs search jobs for (PII or other) data in relational database schemas. The searches you configure in the wizard will compare data in entire schemas to location (metadata) and/or data (content) matchers that you previously associated with specific data classes (like email addresses, names, phone numbers, etc.). Read More
Data Masking/Protection
This is the second article in a series of articles on using IRI DarkShield to search and mask sensitive data in NoSQL databases.
IntroductionThe IRI DarkShield data masking product now includes fit-for-purpose wizards in the IRI Workbench IDE to search (classify) and mask (remediate) PII or other sensitive ”dark data” (as defined by Gartner) in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured file, NoSQL, and relational database sources. Read More