Fast, Field Level Encryption and Related Protection Functions for Data at Risk

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Targeted, Auditable Protections for Data at Risk

CoSort Version 9 has multiple techniques (and the ability for you to add more of your own) to secure sensitive information in files -- down to the field level. You can now make files with confidential, personally-identifiable information safe for compliance and outsourcing and still available for processing and presentation. In fact, with CoSort, you can do it all together - protect, transform, and report.

CoSort includes these field-level security functions:

• encryption and decryption
• anonymization and pseudonymization
• de-identification and re-identification
• redaction (removing sensitive columns)

So, you can use CoSort for standalone security, or to add security directly into large data manipulations. For example, you could use CoSort to simultaneously encrypt and sort data for safe, bulk loads into an on-line database, or use CoSort to produce a delta report (with joins) with de-identified fields.

CoSort delivers on the promise of data-centric security by:

• Exploiting multiple field-level protection techniques per file. Your governance, privacy, and security experts can choose the technique that's right for each field, according to their needs.

• Protecting only data in sensitive fields. You can continue to allow access to, and use of, the rest of the file for data processing, reporting, outsourcing, etc.

• Obfuscating data in ways that make it look real (e.g. pseudonymization, test data, bit manipulation). You can share the files, and still manipulate their records and fields.

• Mixing CoSort's 256-bit AES function with your own encryption libraries. CoSort ships with this NSA standard, and lets you use your own functions to encrypt and decrypt your private data, one or more fields at at time.

• Crossing platforms. CoSort data definitions, job scripts, and security functions work the same way across all Unix, Linux and Windows environments.

• Verifying compliance. CoSort provides an XML audit trails on jobs that detail the who, what, when and how of data protection.

• Generating safe test data in one or more randomly-generated or randomly selected fields. Data masking functionality also exists in CoSort, or you can use the metadata-compatible test data product, RowGen, to create test fields in any file format.

Simultaneous Transforms and Reports on the Files Too? They're Included.

Only CoSort tool gives you the power to combine field-level protections with simultaneous, high-performance transformations, reports, and hand-offs. That's because CoSort's masking functions are just additions to its other data transforms -- all of which can run in one job script and I/O pass. Multiple files and formats, input and output. No size limits. Scalable performance.

If you just want to protect your data, but process, store, or display it elsewhere, you can. With integrated field-level security options, CoSort gives you that choice.

Read on for more information on how to use CoSort to protect sensitive data at rest or in motion -- your files at risk -- through:

• Field-Level Encryption/Decryption
   • Best Practices
   • Superior Algorithms
   • Simultaneous Transforms and Reports
• Field-Level Filtering/Redaction
• Field-Level Anonymization
• Field-Level De/Re-Identification
• Field-Level Pseudonymization

Click below for details on additional security solutions from IRI:

• Synthesize Safe Test Data in Real File Formats
• Job Audits (Verify Compliance) and Data Forensics
• Control and Audit Unix Account Access
• Protect the Software You Write

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