Best Data Masking Software for Microsoft Excel

IRI DarkShield is a powerful data masking tool that can (simultaneously) find and anonymize Personally Identifiable Information (PII) "hidden" in semi-structured and unstructured files and database columns / collections. DarkShield jobs are configured, logged, and run from IRI Workbench or a restful RPC (web services) API to encrypt, redact, blur, etc., the PII it finds in: * NoSQL & RDBs * PDFs * Parquet * JSON, XML & CSV * Excel & Word * BMP, DICOM, GIF, JPG & TIFF DarkShield is one of 3 data masking products in the IRI Data Protector Suite, and comes with IRI Voracity data management platform subscriptions. DarkShield bridges the gap between structured and unstructured data masking, allowing users to secure data in a consistent manner across disparate silos and formats by using the same masking functions as FieldShield and CellShield EE. DarkShield also handles data in RDBs and flat-files, too, but there are more capabilities that FieldShield offers for those sources.

IRI FieldShield® is powerful and affordable data discovery and masking software for PII in structured and semi-structured sources, big and small. Use FieldShield utilities in Eclipse to profile, search and mask data at rest (static data masking), and the FieldShield SDK to mask (or unmask) data in motion (dynamic data masking). Classify PII centrally, find it globally, and mask it consistently. Preserve realism and referential integrity via encryption, pseudonymization, redaction, and other rules for production and test environments. Delete, deliver, or anonymize data subject to DPA, FERPA, GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, POPI, SOX, etc. Verify compliance via human- and machine-readable search reports, job audit logs, and re-identification risk scores. Optionally mask data as you map it. Apply FieldShield functions in IRI Voracity ETL, federation, migration, replication, subsetting, or analytic jobs. Or, run FieldShield from Actifio, Commvault or Windocks to mask DB clones.

Data may be the most important asset, and risk, that your company holds. It describes customers, products, transaction histories, and everything else that you use and plan in business. This data can be in databases, files, spreadsheets, Hadoop, cloud platforms or apps. If you don't have the time or expertise to find and de-identify the personally identifiable information (PII) in those sources yourself, IRI Data Masking as a Service (DMaaS) can help. With IRI DMaaS, you can minimize risk and cost because you only pay for the data you need protected. IRI can do all, or some, of the work to classify, find, and mask that data. IRI can also provide your auditors with the logs and targets that verify that your sensitive data was protected and now complies with privacy laws. To facilitate the service, you can transfer unprotected data to a secure on-premise or cloud-based staging area, or provide remote, supervised access to IRI to the data sources(s) at issue under a strict NDA.

We make BI & Big Data analytics work easier and faster. Our goal is to empower business users and make always-busy business and heavily loaded BI specialists less dependent on each other when solving data-driven business problems. If you have ever experienced a lack of data you needed, time to consuming report generation or long queue to your BI expert, consider Querona. Querona uses a built-in Big Data engine to handle growing data volumes. Repeatable queries can be cached or calculated in advance. Optimization needs less effort as Querona automatically suggests query improvements. Querona empowers business analysts and data scientists by putting self-service in their hands. They can easily discover and prototype data models, add new data sources, experiment with query optimization and dig in raw data. Less IT is needed. Now users can get live data no matter where it is stored. If databases are too busy to be queried live, Querona will cache the data.

Voracity is the only high-performance, all-in-one data management platform accelerating AND consolidating the key activities of data discovery, integration, migration, governance, and analytics. Voracity helps you control your data in every stage of the lifecycle, and extract maximum value from it. Only in Voracity can you: 1) CLASSIFY, profile and diagram enterprise data sources 2) Speed or LEAVE legacy sort and ETL tools 3) MIGRATE data to modernize and WRANGLE data to analyze 4) FIND PII everywhere and consistently MASK it for referential integrity 5) Score re-ID risk and ANONYMIZE quasi-identifiers 6) Create and manage DB subsets or intelligently synthesize TEST data 7) Package, protect and provision BIG data 8) Validate, scrub, enrich and unify data to improve its QUALITY 9) Manage metadata and MASTER data. Use Voracity to comply with data privacy laws, de-muck and govern the data lake, improve the reliability of your analytics, and create safe, smart test data

The IRI Data Protector suite contains multiple data masking products which can be licensed standalone or in a discounted bundle to profile, classify, search, mask, and audit PII and other sensitive information in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources. Apply their many masking functions consistently for referential integrity: ​IRI FieldShield® Structured Data Masking FieldShield classifies, finds, de-identifies, risk-scores, and audits PII in databases, flat files, JSON, etc. IRI DarkShield® Semi & Unstructured Data Masking DarkShield classifies, finds, and deletes PII in text, pdf, Parquet, C/BLOBs, MS documents, logs, NoSQL DBs, images, and faces. IRI CellShield® Excel® Data Masking CellShield finds, reports on, masks, and audits changes to PII in Excel columns and values LAN-wide or in the cloud. IRI Data Masking as a Service IRI DMaaS engineers in the US and abroad do the work of classifying, finding, masking, and risk-scoring PII for you.

Libelle DataMasking (LDM) is a robust, enterprise-grade data masking solution that automates the anonymization of sensitive or personal data—such as names, addresses, dates, emails, IBANs, credit cards—and transforms them into realistic, logically consistent substitutes that maintain referential integrity across SAP and non‑SAP systems, including Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA, flat files, and cloud databases. Capable of processing up to 200,000 entries per second and supporting parallelized masking for massive datasets, LDM uses a multithreaded architecture to efficiently read, anonymize, and write data back with high performance. It features over 40 built‑in anonymization algorithms—such as number, alphanumeric, date shifting, name, email, IBAN masking, credit card obfuscation, and mapping algorithms—as well as templates for SAP modules (CRM, ERP, FI/CO, HCM, SD, SRM).