Data Masking/Protection
The IRI DarkShield Command-Line Interface (CLI) offers a powerful way to harness the data discovery and masking capabilities of DarkShield Version 5 outside the graphical IRI Workbench environment. Read More
Big Data
Corporations and government agencies store a lot of useful information in non-transactional semi-structured and unstructured data sources. Finding that data – in documents, logs, and images – is important not only for data masking, but also for textual ETL. Read More
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
Big Data
As you may already know, IRI DarkShield produces search annotations and masking results with every operation. These log files can contain a large volume of data, including:
metadata about the file/database source(s) what data was found as a match which matcher matched the data how the data was masked (if it was) where matches occurred within each file or database. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
This article discusses the Directory Data Class Search wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for FieldShield. This data discovery jobs built in the wizard scan directories that you select on local or networked nodes to: 1) log and chart PII it finds; and, 2) classify the data, in flat files. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
In past articles we have discussed the Data Class & Rules Library and leveraged this library in data classification processes (Schema Data Class Search and Directory Data Class Search), that in turn produce a file called a Data Class Map. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
The Schema Data Class Search wizard in IRI Workbench (WB) designs search jobs for (PII or other) data in relational database schemas. The searches you configure in the wizard will compare data in entire schemas to location (metadata) and/or data (content) matchers that you previously associated with specific data classes (like email addresses, names, phone numbers, etc.). Read More
Data Masking/Protection
As we’ve learned from this article on Data Classification in IRI Workbench (as of DarkShield V5), the types of PII, or classes of sensitive data, you define should be associated with one or more Search Matchers used during data discovery to find those values accurately. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
As we’ve learned from this article on Data Classification in IRI Workbench (as of DarkShield V5), the types of PII, or classes of sensitive data, you define should be associated with one or more Search Matchers used during data discovery to locate those values accurately. Read More