Opportunities in Digital Business
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
-George Bernard Shaw
The mathematical symbol for change is the Greek uppercase letter delta: Δ. Read More
Direct Data Masking for MongoDB (2nd Method)
Note: This example demonstrates a more direct method of using IRI FieldShield or IRI Voracity to statically mask PII within structured MongoDB collections. Our older how-to-article on indirect data masking of MongoDB through export/mask/import from 2015 is here, and a newer method through MongoDB’s native driver support in CoSort v10 from 2018 is here. Read More
The Orca and IRI Voracity
Intelligent. Fierce. Powerful. Fast. Voracious.
Killer whales, or orcas thrive in every world ocean and in many seas. They are intelligent, lively, and highly social creatures that form close, matrilineal groups. Read More
Big Data Analytics in Use
In ancient times, the ability to process and analyze information was invaluable. Greek knowledge of astronomy gave rise to the Antikythera Mechanism, an analog computer with sophisticated bronze gears that predicted astronomical events like lunar phases and eclipses. Read More
FieldShield SDK
IRI provides a software development kit (SDK) to help FieldShield users apply column-level encryption, decryption, hashing, and redaction algorithms in Java and .NET projects for more in-situ or dynamic data masking requirements. Read More
How to Mask Cassandra with IRI FieldShield
UPDATE: Q2’17: Included JDBC and ODBC drivers, and pending native JSON handling can make the connections faster and more seamless than the approach shown below. You can also use the Hadoop edition of IRI Voracity to mask data in HDFS directly. Read More
Creating Test Data for Cassandra
UPDATE: Q1’17: Native JSON file generation, and available JDBC and ODBC drivers for NoSQL RDBs like Cassandra, now provide a more seamless connection than the CSV/import approach shown below. Read More
Creating Test Data for MongoDB
Introduction: This example demonstrates an older method of using IRI RowGen to generate and populate large or complex collection prototypes for testing or system capacity using flat files. Read More
PII Masking in MongoDB & Other NoSQL DBs via…
Editors Note: This example demonstrates our earliest, least direct (though still available) method of using IRI FieldShield to protect data found within MongoDB tables. As you will read, the MongoDB Export Utility in this case extracts data and create a CSV file that FieldShield masks externally, prior to loading the newly secured data back into MongoDB. Read More
Faster Spotfire BI via CoSort
Introduction: As with multiple BI platforms discussed throughout this section of the IRI blog site, this article analyzes the relative data preparation performance (and benefit) of IRI CoSort with Tibco Spotfire when ‘big data’ sources are involved. Read More
Easier Big Data Prep for R
Among analytic tools for statistical computation and graphics, R has shown an increase in popularity among data miners, and in the development of its open source language. Read More