IRI, The CoSort Company

Using the SortCL program included with IRI's CoSort package, you can rapidly encrypt (or otherwise protect, see left) your large files at the field-level. The resulting ciphertext contains only printable characters. This means you can process both the private and non-private fields in your file through SortCL or any other tool.

In other words, you can protect files, but still deliver and use them for data manipulation, loads, and reports without risking a privacy breach. Your ETL, ODS, database, and business intelligence operations can continue running through data smoothly and safely, without the inconvenience or cost of heavier-handed security measures.

Encryption (like the other protection techniques on the left) is just another field-level transformation available in the CoSort package's SortCL tool. This allows you to combine field-level encryption operations in the same product, place, and pass right along with other filtering, transformation, format interchange, and formatting functions you want to run in the file system.

With SortCL, you can protect (encrypt) your files while you are simultaneously transforming and reporting from them.

CoSort V9 benchmarks prove that the incremental overhead of its AES encryption in SortCL is minimal. So, why not encrypt sensitive field in the same job script and I/O pass with:

• one or more field encryption libraries and keys
• other field protections (see function links at left)
• multiple, high-volume data transformations
• database loader pre-sorts
• reporting and business intelligence operations