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IRI FieldShield® offers an effective and cost-efficient solution for the discovery and de-identification of sensitive data, such as PII, PHI, and PAN, across both structured and semi-structured data sources. With its user-friendly interface built on an Eclipse-based design platform, FieldShield allows users to perform classification, profiling, scanning, and static masking of data at rest. Additionally, the FieldShield SDK or a proxy-based application can be utilized for dynamic data masking, ensuring the security of data in motion. Typically, the process for masking relational databases and various flat file formats, including CSV, Excel, LDIF, and COBOL, involves a centralized classification system that enables global searches and automated masking techniques. This is achieved through methods like encryption, pseudonymization, and redaction, all designed to maintain realism and referential integrity in both production and testing environments. FieldShield can be employed to create sanitized test data, mitigate the impact of data breaches, or ensure compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, PDPA, and PCI-DSS, among others. Users can perform audits through both machine-readable and human-readable search reports, job logs, and re-identification risk assessments. Furthermore, it offers the flexibility to mask data during the mapping process, and its capabilities can also be integrated into various IRI Voracity ETL functions, including federation, migration, replication, subsetting, and analytical operations. For database clones, FieldShield can be executed in conjunction with platforms like Windocks, Actifio, or Commvault, and it can even be triggered from CI/CD pipelines and applications, ensuring versatility in data management practices.