Data Masking: Obscuring Dates and Ages
Editor’s Note: Note that this article refers to older but still supported methods for obfuscating PII elements like dates of birth and ages in IRI FieldShield. Read More
Data Masking: Masking Social Security and other National IDs
Data masking is one method to combat the nearly 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (PII) that occur every day. With data privacy breaches still at unacceptably high levels, how can companies protect PII such as their national ID numbers across their myriad sources of data? Read More
Data Risk Mitigation via Data Masking
Data at Rest is Data at Risk. Mitigate the Risk through Data-Centric Security
Data Risk Mitigation … the need for it is on the rise in the United States and around the globe. Read More
Encryption Key Management and Why You Should Care
Encryption key management is one of the most important “basics” for an organization dealing with security and privacy protection. Major data losses and regulatory compliance requirements have prompted a dramatic increase in the use of encryption within corporate data centers. Read More
Data Privacy Breaches at All Time High
Data privacy breaches are becoming more and more prevalent and common in the United States today. Â Did you know that on average, as many as 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (i.e. Read More
What is Data Pseudonymization?
This article deals with pseudonymization as one method of de-identifying or anonymizing sensitive data.
The unauthorized use or misuse of our personally identifiable information (or PII) — such as name, social security number, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, place of birth, etc. Read More
Data Masking and Encryption Are Different [video]
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
IRI CellShield EE (Enterprise Edition) Features [video]
IRI CellShield EE (Enterprise Edition) is the full-featured, professional data masking package for Excel 2010 and later workbooks in your LAN, and MS repositories. Discover, report, protect, and audit PII in cells across multiple sheets at once using encryption, masking, and pseudonymization functions to comply with data privacy laws. Read More
Basic Data Masking and Encryption Demonstration [video]
This demonstration shows how to use IRI FieldShield in Workbench to create a script to protect personally identifying information (PII) at the field level. Masking functions and encryption algorithms are applied to separate fields in a database in the same pass. Read More
IRI CellShield Data Masking in Excel [video]
IRI CellShield is data masking software for PII and PHI at rest in Excel spreadsheets. Built on IRI FieldShield technology, CellShield enables point-and-click, reversible and non-reversible protections directly in Excel columns. Read More
FieldShield Data Masking Software Demonstration [video]
IRI FieldShield is a proven, best-in-class data-centric security package for classifying, finding, and masking personally identifying information (PII) and other sensitive data in database columns and flat-file fields. Read More