That's why DarkShield is better!
Consider the key benefits and differentiators
Why is IRI DarkShield the best choice for protecting personal data (PII) hidden in unstructured sources?
Click through these nine reasons for each detail and read the other pages in this section to learn more.
DarkShield offers a unique shape more content-oriented DLP by separately or simultaneously scanning and securing PII in a variety of data sources and formats using a variety of search methods and de-identification functions. In addition to its extensive dark data detection and masking wizards, DarkShield shares the same data class definitions and masking capabilities as its sister programs for structured data and Excel; see Compatibility.
In terms of pure masking capabilities, DarkShield offers a uniquely broad range for unstructured text and image files, structured, semi-structured and unstructured columns in relational and NoSQL DBs, as well as PDF and MS documents. In particular, for PII in unstructured text and document files, you can use functions in 15 different data masking categories ranging from encryption and pseudonymization, hashing and redaction to fuzziness and string logic.
Runtime capability, both for search and masking operations, is not just a question of separate or together, but also of where. You can run DarkShield jobs from the IRI Workbench (Eclipse IDE), the command line or from your own programs via an RPC API call for streaming text, files, relational DBs or NoSQL DBs.
Note the ever-growing number of supported file formats for search and masking operations with DarkShield, as well as the ability to search and mask data in a range of cloud, NoSQL DB and application environments, including Amazon S3, Azure BLOB storage, Sharepoint and GCP buckets. See the technical details page for the latest list of supported data formats and sources.
DarkShield offers a unique form. Its performance scales linearly with volume and requires neither Hadoop, flexible computing, nor very large storage architectures to process multiple documents. DarkShield natively leverages multiple search threads, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, data streaming, and task consolidation to maximize the definition and speed of complex, high-volume data discovery and de-identification operations.
DarkShield offers a unique form DarkShield is based on Eclipse, the proven, extensible IDE already known to millions of users worldwide. It is a simple product to get started with and to use in the long term. It also requires no external components.
What makes DarkShield even easier in this context, however, are the intuitive data classification dialogs, job configuration wizards, and metadata infrastructure...which provide convenient and easy-to-learn ways to classify and find your PII, then perform and modify masking functions on it, and report on what you've found and/or masked via JSON, delimited, and HTML5 (graphical) logs.
And thanks to the data class infrastructure, the type of masking in DarkShield is content-independent. This means you don't have to worry about file formats, just your data classes and masking rules to automatically maintain data/reference integrity during masking operations across multiple sources and silos.
For API programmers, DarkShield uses the popular Swagger (OpenAPI) framework to accelerate code development, integration and modification through clear, human-readable documentation and to facilitate web service calls.
DarkShield offers a unique form DarkShield uses the same data classes, search methods and masking functions as IRI FieldShield (for structured RDBs and flat files) and CellShield EE (for In-Excel search/masking) and runs on any Windows, Linux or MacOS system on-premises or in the cloud.
Note that DarkShield ALSO supports multiple NER models (compatible with OpenNLP, Tensorflow and Pytorch) as well as exact AND fuzzy matching against values in lookup files provided by us or you.
When you use DarkShield through an IRI Voracity platform subscription, you can also utilize FieldShield and CellShield EE, as well as an extensive range of privacy features that go beyond discovery and de-identification, including: Re-ID risk assessment and anonymization for HIPAA EDM and FERPA compliance, DB subsetting (with or without masking), intelligent synthetic test data generation and population AND fast big data management capabilities including: data integration (ETL, etc.), cleansing, conversion, reporting and more, all in the same console, the IRI Workbench, built on Eclipse.
DarkShield's developers work with or otherwise follow the recommendations of top security consultants, industry analysts, and corporate CISOs or compliance officers, both in the development of features and in the implementation of customized solutions.
DarkShield is based on Eclipse, the proven, extensible IDE already known to millions of users worldwide. It is a simple product to get started with and to use in the long term. It also requires no external components.
What makes DarkShield even easier in this context, however, are the intuitive data classification dialogs, job configuration wizards, and metadata infrastructure...which provide convenient and easy-to-learn ways to classify and find your PII, then perform and modify masking functions on it, and report on what you've found and/or masked via JSON, delimited, and HTML5 (graphical) logs.
And thanks to the data class infrastructure, the type of masking in DarkShield is content-independent. This means you don't have to worry about file formats, just your data classes and masking rules to automatically maintain data/reference integrity during masking operations across multiple sources and silos.
For API programmers, DarkShield uses the popular Swagger (OpenAPI) framework to accelerate code development, integration and modification through clear, human-readable documentation and to facilitate web service calls.
DarkShield is available individually at the lowest price in the industry (IRI is intentionally not a megavendor) or included free with a subscription to IRI's Voracity data management platform.
DarkShield is developed, licensed and supported by IRI, The CoSort Company, an American ISV known for high performance data manipulation since 1978. IRI has been profitable since its inception, partnering with the world's leading VARs, system integrators and data security and compliance consultants, such as Capgemini, FortifyData, GDPRTech, HIPAAOne (Intraprise), NTT Data and SecureIT Labs. In this way, IRI and its authorized representatives continue to provide the confidence and personalized service you need to succeed. See this page about the company's recognition in the data classification, governance and masking markets.