Data Classification in IRI Workbench
EDITOR’S NOTE: The information documented in this article applies to IRI Workbench versions released prior to Q4, 2023. For more recent information, please refer instead to this article. Read More
Creating a Voracity Flow from the Palette (Part 1…
This is the first of two articles showing how to create and use job flows in the IRI Workbench GUI for Voracity. It follows two other series on creating flows automatically using new job wizards. Read More
PII Lookup File Searches
Editor’s Note: This article was writen in 2016. But since 2023, there are even more robust PII discovery capabilities for data in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured (RDB, NoSQL DB, file, document, and image) sources using IRI DarkShield, including Named Entity Recognition (NER) model matchers. Read More
Consistent Pseudonyms for Databases
Applying a Pseudonym Rule in the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield or Voracity
To create pseudonym values that will be consistent across tables — and keep up with changing data in those tables — the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield and Voracity offers a few methods. Read More
Intra-Cell Search & Mask Feature of IRI CellShield EE…
IRI CellShield™ Enterprise Edition now offers an Intra-Cell Search feature that finds and protects sensitive data in unstructured cell contents with masking, encryption, or pseudonymization. Just as with full-cell values, you can now identify and mask the ‘floating’ sensitive data in Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets with only a few mouse clicks. Read More
What Is Database Subsetting? How to Subset a Database.
Once a database exceeds a certain size, it becomes expensive — and risky from a security perspective — to provide full-size copies for development, testing, and training. Read More
PII Masking in MongoDB (2nd Method)
Note: This example demonstrates a more direct method of using IRI FieldShield or IRI Voracity to statically mask PII within structured MongoDB collections. Our older how-to-article on indirect data masking of MongoDB through export/mask/import from 2015 is here, and a newer method through MongoDB’s native driver support in CoSort v10 from 2018 is here. Read More
Data Quality and Fuzzy Searching
IRI is now also delivering fuzzy search functions, both in its free database and flat-file profiling tools, and as available field-function libraries in IRI CoSort, FieldShield, and Voracity to augment data quality, security, and MDM capabilities. Read More
FieldShield SDK
IRI provides a software development kit (SDK) to help FieldShield users apply column-level encryption, decryption, hashing, and redaction algorithms in Java and .NET projects for more in-situ or dynamic data masking requirements. Read More
Drawing Values from Set Files
This article looks at sets from an informational processing perspective; what they are; how they are constructed; and, distinct ways in which data can be drawn from sets within IRI software products using the SortCL data definition and processing program; i.e., Read More
Testing and Masking Singapore NRICs
Singapore NRICs are used in much the same way Social Security numbers are used in the United States. The Singapore NRIC identifies citizens, permanent residents, or any other person who has entered the country for an extended stay on visa. Read More