IRI Inc. Enhances Data Protection Capabilities with Expanded Masking Solutions

September 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM EDT

New DarkShield capabilities enable deterministic masking across EDI formats, empowering enterprises to secure PII and PHI in structured and unstructured data.

Melbourne, Florida, United States, September 25, 2025 -- IRI, Inc., a global leader in data management and protection software, has announced powerful enhancements to its DarkShield product suite, solidifying its position in the growing landscape of data masking tools. With new support for HL7, X12, and FHIR healthcare EDI files, IRI's latest update delivers precise, repeatable masking capabilities that help organizations enforce compliance with HIPAA and other stringent data privacy regulations.

“The release of our new job wizards for DarkShield reflects our continued mission to simplify and accelerate the secure handling of sensitive information across increasingly complex data environments,” said Tylor Quinley, Software Engineer at IRI. “These capabilities empower users to consistently identify and mask protected health information with minimal manual input, cutting down processing time while ensuring referential integrity is preserved.”

The newly introduced functionality enables users to classify and de-identify PHI fields in widely used healthcare data exchange formats, allowing for deterministic data masking within semi-structured and unstructured files. By extending these features across HL7, X12, and FHIR standards, IRI DarkShield ensures seamless, automated recognition of sensitive fields and segments in a single processing pass. The use of prebuilt data class definitions and repeatable masking logic allows organizations to confidently apply the same masking methods across disparate formats, preserving data realism and consistency across test environments and analytics platforms.

Beyond its support for healthcare-specific formats, IRI’s portfolio of database masking tools spans the full spectrum of enterprise data sources. These include relational databases, flat files, semi-structured formats like JSON and XML, and dark data formats such as PDFs, Office files, and images. Users can employ a wide array of masking functions—from hashing and tokenization to pseudonymization and redaction—all from the IRI Workbench GUI, which simplifies data classification, rule configuration, and job design. Role-based access controls and detailed audit logs further enable organizations to enforce data governance policies and demonstrate compliance with global privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

About the company: Established in 1978 and headquartered in Florida, IRI Inc. has earned international recognition for its high-performance data processing technology. Known as The CoSort Company, IRI is the developer of the Voracity data management platform and a suite of tools that support data discovery, integration, migration, transformation, and protection. IRI solutions are actively deployed in private and public sector enterprises worldwide, offering scalable, on-premise alternatives to cloud-native data governance and masking applications. Through its dedicated focus on secure, efficient, and compliant data workflows, IRI continues to serve as a trusted partner in data-centric security and DevOps. The company's masking solutions are frequently referenced in industry research and are integral to client operations spanning finance, healthcare, retail, and government sectors.

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Name: David Friedland
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Organization: Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc.
Address: 2194 Highway A1A, 3rd Floor Melbourne, FL 32937-4932 USA
Phone: +1.321.777.8889
Website: https://www.iri.com/

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