Data Masking/Protection
Data Privacy on Fire For the past 20 years or so, data breach headlines continue to capture public and legal attention. Significant data breaches are chronicled at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse on this page. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Abstract: This article explains a method of protecting credit card data with tokenization using the IRI FieldShield data masking tool.
Submitting one’s credit card details electronically can be disconcerting (e.g., Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Hashing and encryption are distinct disciplines. Indeed, the differenced between hashing and encryption can be stark:
According to the SSL Store, “encryption is a two-way function where information is scrambled in such a way that it can be unscrambled later. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Summary
The protection of sensitive information and data loss prevention (DLP) are critical elements of modern data governance. IRI’s FieldShield is a uniquely versatile tool for securing sensitive fields in database tables and flat files with a choice of protections that operate according to business rules to de-identify or remove individualizing characteristics, without cutting off access to the rest of the data or changing their basic appearance. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
It is a common mistake to refer to data masking and data encryption interchangeably to mean the same things. While field-level encryption is considered one of many possible “data masking” functions, we define data masking and encryption as technically distinct processes below. Read More
