IRI Announces Version 6 of the FieldShield Data Masking Tool | PR Newswire [Video]

Latest Release Supports New Data Classification and Discovery Infrastructure & Cloud Sources 

, /PRNewswire/ — Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., the 46-year-old pioneer in big data management and data-centric security software, has announced a major new version of its FieldShield data masking package for masking PII in structured data sources on-premise and in the cloud. FieldShield V6 expands significantly on the features in V5 announced at the end of 2020, particularly those involved in its built-in data classification and discovery processes.

First launched in 2011, IRI FieldShield was one of the world’s first data masking tools, and the first to target personally identifiable information (PII) in flat files and relational databases off the mainframe. Since then, FieldShield has been widely adopted by financial, healthcare, and government database users because it preserves referential integrity and supports custom logic in data masking and test data jobs.

New features of FieldShield Version 6 include:

* Expanded Data Source Support

In addition …