Data Masking/Protection
According to Trent Henry of the Burton Group,
Data protection needs to take into account both internal and external threats, including those against critical database and application resources. Read More
Data Migration
Data validation is a process that ensures a program operates with clean, correct and useful data. It uses routines known as validation rules that systematically check for correctness and meaningfulness of data that are entered into the system. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Editors Note: This article refers only to full or partial column/field redaction of strings in structured database or flat files, and thus one of many static (and API-driven dynamic) data masking functions available in IRI FieldShield. Read More
IRI Business
IRI Workbench is a powerful, and free integrated development environment (IDE) built on Eclipse designed for the user-friendly creation, management, and deployment of jobs in most IRI software products. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Summary
The protection of sensitive information and data loss prevention (DLP) are critical elements of modern data governance. IRI’s FieldShield is a uniquely versatile tool for securing sensitive fields in database tables and flat files with a choice of protections that operate according to business rules to de-identify or remove individualizing characteristics, without cutting off access to the rest of the data or changing their basic appearance. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Protecting Data at Rest and in Motion
Database applications that update and query tables may need to secure data going into, or being retrieved from, those tables. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
In the course of protecting personally identifiable information (PII) moving into and out of databases, FieldShield and CoSort typically externalize protection of the full table(s) they connect to. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
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
Test Data
Database Test Data Usage – This blog caught my eye because of its title, Do the right thing when testing with production data. It struck me as oxymoronic, since we know production data should not be used for testing at all …
Of course we know how tempting it is to use production data for testing applications, simulating databases, prototyping ETL operations, and just about anything else that needs to work with the real thing. Read More
Data Migration
Data migration is done using NextForm; IRI’s data migration utility for converting large files into different formats and/or translating field-level data into other types. The current version converts between uniform XML and text files, LDIF and CSV, Vision and ISAM, MF COBOL variable-length files and Excel, etc. Read More