Quasi-identifiers, or indirect identifiers, are personal attributes that are true about, but not necessarily unique, to an individual. Examples are one’s age or date of birth, race, salary, educational attainment, occupation, marital status and zip code. Read More
Note: This article covers the third available IRI customer method for statically masking or encrypting PII in structured MongoDB collections through the IRI FieldShield product or IRI Voracity platform (both powered by IRI CoSort v10 and its support of the native MongoDB driver). Read More
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
Detecting additions and updates to database tables for data replication, ETL, PII masking, and other incremental data movement and manipulation activities can be automated in IRI Voracity workflows designed and run in IRI Workbench (WB). Read More
This article covers the creation and use of remote server connections from IRI Workbench so you can run CoSort (Voracity), NextForm, FieldShield, or RowGen scripts on other computers. Read More
Our first article on data replication in the IRI Workbench GUI for NextForm (DB edition) or Voracity demonstrated how to copy and transform data as it moved from Oracle to two targets. Read More
Enterprise data continues to change rapidly in form, size, use, and residence. Rarely does it remain in siloed constructs anymore, limited to certain business units or untouched by the outside world. Read More
Data replication means copying data from one place to another, and is usually done between users of different databases who need to share the same level of information. Read More
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
A DSN (database source name) file allows multiple users to connect to a database with information in a flat file. It is used by the database client program — in this case, software in the IRI Workbench — to connect to a database. Read More
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