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Description

IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Data Privacy offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to effectively mask sensitive information in non-production settings like development, testing, quality assurance, or training. This singular solution employs various transformation methods to replace sensitive data with realistic, fully functional masked alternatives, ensuring the confidentiality of critical information. Techniques for masking include using substrings, arithmetic expressions, generating random or sequential numbers, manipulating dates, and concatenating data elements. The advanced masking capabilities maintain contextually appropriate formats that closely resemble the original data. Users can apply an array of masking techniques on demand to safeguard personally identifiable information and sensitive corporate data within applications, databases, and reports. By utilizing these data masking features, organizations can mitigate the risk of data misuse by obscuring, privatizing, and protecting personal information circulated in non-production environments, thereby enhancing data security and compliance. Ultimately, this solution empowers businesses to navigate privacy challenges while maintaining the integrity of their operational processes.

Description

Velum Privacy is designed to protect personal data before it interacts with an AI assistant, subsequently restoring the actual values in the response, all while operating solely on your machine without the need for servers, accounts, or any telemetry. The system is inherently reversible; it employs one-way redaction to secure the data, although this would typically compromise the response, yet a local mapping ensures that the returned reply remains intelligible. This solution comprises three distinct interfaces integrated into a single engine: a browser extension compatible with Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi that offers text masking without requiring an account; a macOS desktop application that manages documents, folders, and coding tasks through MCP, with a Windows version currently under development; and an application for Jira and Confluence Cloud that operates within your own Atlassian environment. Detection is achieved through a combination of pattern recognition, checksum validation specifically for IBANs and national IDs, and a local named entity recognition model that supports nine language variations, with published accuracy metrics highlighting a remarkable 99.8% must-mask F1 score at the highest level, including failure rates. The commitment to transparency is evident, as the extension specifies zero host permissions, while the desktop application meticulously lists every outbound connection and ensures masking occurs even when the network is offline, reinforcing the integrity of the system. Such comprehensive measures ensure that users can maintain control over their sensitive information while enjoying the benefits of AI technology.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

Amdocs Customer Experience Suite Yes 
Hadoop Yes 
IBM Cloud Yes 
IBM Db2 Yes 
IBM InfoSphere Optim Yes 
IBM Informix Yes 
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Yes 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) No 
Oracle PeopleSoft Yes 
Oracle Siebel CRM Yes 
SQL Server Yes 

Integrations

Amdocs Customer Experience Suite No 
Hadoop No 
IBM Cloud No 
IBM Db2 No 
IBM InfoSphere Optim No 
IBM Informix No 
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne No 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Yes 
Oracle PeopleSoft No 
Oracle Siebel CRM No 
SQL Server No 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

$149/year
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version Yes 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac No 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises Yes 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) Yes 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) Yes 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person Yes 

Vendor Details

Company Name

IBM

Founded

1911

Country

United States

Website

www.ibm.com/il-en/products/infosphere-optim-data-privacy

Vendor Details

Company Name

Velum Privacy

Founded

2025

Country

Spain

Website

velumprivacy.com

Product Features

Data Privacy Management

Access Control No 
CCPA Compliance No 
Consent Management No 
Data Mapping No 
GDPR Compliance No 
Incident Management No 
PIA / DPIA No 
Policy Management No 
Risk Management No 
Sensitive Data Identification No 

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