IRI DarkShield vs Privy by IDfy

IRI DarkShield finds, classifies, extracts, reports on, and masks sensitive information in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Searches can use regular expressions, lookup values, path filters, or named-entity recognition with NLP and machine learning. Masking options include deletion, encryption, hashing, pseudonymization, and randomization. Sources range from local or SMB files and cloud object storage to JDBC databases and NoSQL collections. Jobs can run through IRI Workbench, command-line tools, batch scripts, or API-calling programs; Version 6 added REST API support. An exportable HTML5 dashboard shows what sensitive data was found and whether it was masked, while logs can go to SIEM tools such as Splunk Enterprise Security and Datadog. DarkShield runs within customer-controlled infrastructure, on premises or in a customer-controlled cloud. It supports Windows, Linux, and macOS, with at least 4 GB RAM and two cores recommended. Pricing starts at $5,490, and a 30-day trial is listed. Standalone licenses are perpetual and charged per hostname; first-year support is included, with later support available at 20% of the license-fee basis per year.

Privy by IDfy is an enterprise privacy and data-governance platform for operationalizing India’s DPDP compliance. It combines consent management, data-principal rights, privacy assessments, third-party risk, incident management, data discovery, lineage, and AI compliance. Consent tools handle creation, validation, withdrawal, multilingual notices, real-time status checks, and tamper-proof audit trails. Data Principal Rights Management automates access, correction, and deletion through a self-service portal supporting 22 Indian languages. A Cookie Manager scans, categorizes, and manages cookies. Data discovery connects through 200+ integrations across databases, warehouses, file stores, business applications, and collaboration platforms, scanning multi-cloud, SaaS, on-premise systems, endpoints, third parties, and AI ecosystems. The AI Compliance Co-pilot detects gaps across 10 modules and three pillars. Third-party risk tools score vendors using credit, security, and compliance data. Privy also provides an API consent layer for pre-collection checks and is described as deployable in as little as 14 days, depending on scope and readiness. It runs via web and API access. Pricing is available by demo request.