Best Data Masking Software for IRI Voracity

IRI FieldShield® is a powerful and affordable data discovery and de-identification package for masking PII, PHI, PAN and other sensitive data in structured and semi-structured sources. Front-ended in a free Eclipse-based design environment, FieldShield jobs classify, profile, scan, and de-identify data at rest (static masking). Use the FieldShield SDK or proxy-based application to secure data in motion (dynamic data masking). The usual method for masking RDB and other flat files (CSV, Excel, LDIF, COBOL, etc.) is to classify it centrally, search for it globally, and automatically mask it in a consistent way using encryption, pseudonymization, redaction or other functions to preserve realism and referential integrity in production or test environments. Use FieldShield to make test data, nullify breaches, or comply with GDPR. HIPAA. PCI, PDPA, PCI-DSS and other laws. Audit through machine- and human-readable search reports, job logs and re-ID risks scores. Optionally mask data when you map it; FieldShield functions can also run in IRI Voracity ETL and federation, migration, replication, subsetting, and analytic jobs. To mask DB clones run FieldShield in Windocks, Actifio or Commvault. Call it from CI/CD pipelines and apps.

IRI DarkShield uses several search techniques to find, and multiple data masking functions to de-identify, sensitive data in semi- and unstructured data sources enterprise-wide. You can use the search results to provide, remove, or fix PII simultaneously or separately to comply with GDPR data portability and erasure provisions. DarkShield jobs are configured, logged, and run from IRI Workbench or a restful RPC (web services) API to encrypt, redact, blur, etc., the PII it discovers in: * NoSQL & RDBs * PDFs * Parquet * JSON, XML & CSV * Excel & Word * BMP, DICOM, GIF, JPG & TIFF using pattern or dictionary matches, fuzzy search, named entity recognition, path filters, or image area bounding boxes. DarkShield search data can display in its own interactive dashboard, or in SIEM software analytic and visualization platforms like Datadog or Splunk ES. A Splunk Adaptive Response Framework or Phantom Playbook can also act on it. IRI DarkShield is a breakthrough in unstructured data hiding technology, speed, usability and affordability. DarkShield consolidates, multi-threads, the search, extraction and remediation of PII in multiple formats and folders on your network and in the cloud, on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

For more four decades, IRI CoSort has defined the state-of-the-art in big data sorting and transformation technology. From advanced algorithms to automatic memory management, and from multi-core exploitation to I/O optimization, there is no more proven performer for production data processing than CoSort. CoSort was the first commercial sort package developed for open systems: CP/M in 1980, MS-DOS in 1982, Unix in 1985, and Windows in 1995. Repeatedly reported to be the fastest commercial-grade sort product for Unix. CoSort was also judged by PC Week to be the "top performing" sort on Windows. CoSort was released for CP/M in 1978, DOS in 1980, Unix in the mid-eighties, and Windows in the early nineties, and received a readership award from DM Review magazine in 2000. CoSort was first designed as a file sorting utility, and added interfaces to replace or convert sort program parameters used in IBM DataStage, Informatica, MF COBOL, JCL, NATURAL, SAS, and SyncSort. In 1992, CoSort added related manipulation functions through a control language interface based on VMS sort utility syntax, which evolved through the years to handle structured data integration and staging for flat files and RDBs, and multiple spinoff products.

IRI Data Masking as a Service is a professional services engagement to secure PII. Step 1: IRI agrees under NDA terms to classify, analyze, and report on the sensitive, at-risk data in your sources. We will discuss an initial cost estimate then hone it with you during data discovery. Step 2: Transfer the unprotected data to a secure on-premise or cloud-based staging area or provide remote, supervised access to IRI to the data sources(s) at issue. We'll use the tools in the award-winning IRI Data Protector suite to mask that data according to your business rules, on an ad hoc or recurring basis. Step 3: Our experts can also move newly-masked data to incremental replicas in production or to lower non-production environments. From either, the data is now safe for analytic initiatives, development, testing, or training. Tell us if you need additional services, like re-ID risk scoring (expert determination) of the de-identified data. This approach provides the benefits of proven data masking solution technology and services without the need to learn and customize new software from scratch. If you do want to use the software in-house, you will have everything pre-configured for easier long-term self-use and modification.