Data Masking/Protection
First released in 2011, the IRI FieldShield database data masking tool helps you classify, find, and de-identify personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data in structured relational database (RDB) sources. 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
ETL
Data flowing through application development, machine learning, and analytic pipelines must address several needs common to all three, including:
Realism, to reflect production data characteristics and application test requirements; Compliance, with business and data privacy rules, plus DB and analytic models; Availability, or security, of the data (depending on your perspective); and, Auditability, for lineage and accountability. Read More
ETL
Abstract: IRI and DataSwitch have partnered to create an end-to-end, multi-featured metadata and AI-driven data engineering environment for: legacy data and ETL modernization, cloud data integration and migration, data governance and masking operations, and data democratization for business-friendly analytics. Read More
Big Data
Three years after the release of CoSort V10, a significant interim update to IRI’s primary data transformation software package has been announced. This article summarizes what’s new in the CoSort high-performance data sorting and ETL tool since Version 10.0.1 was introduced. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Abstract: Now that XLS and XLSX files are now also directly supported in IRI FieldShield by virtue of their new /PROCESS (format) support in the CoSort 10.5 SortCL program, IRI Voracity data management platform and standalone data masking users have three different ways to “shield” sensitive data in their spreadsheets. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
The names of IRI software products and how they run have at times been a source of mystery, or even confusion, to the uninitiated. This article spells out the pieces and clarifies their interplay, providing a quick primer for prospective users, partners, and new industry analysts. Read More
Data Transformation
Forty years after the first release of IRI CoSort for CP/M, CoSort v10 for Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms was released in the middle of 2018. Read More
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. 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