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Philter 1.6.0
June 15, 2020
Philter 1.6.0 is available soon through the cloud marketplaces with many new features! This version adds alerts, new filters, and a new replacement strategy.
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Philter – A Real-World Use-Case
May 21, 2020
Philter finds, identifies, and removes sensitive information from text. In this post we will detail an actual, real-world use-case of Philter.
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Challenges in Finding Sensitive Information in Text
May 21, 2020
Finding sensitive information and content in text has been a problem for as long as text has existed.
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Philter 1.5.0
May 1, 2020
Philter 1.5.0 adds support for a new Section filter, support for storing filter profiles on Amazon S3, consolidated caches, and a customizable model file.
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CloudFormation template for a highly-available Philter
April 14, 2020
An AWS CloudFormation template to deploy an auto-scaled, highly-available Philter environment to identify and remove sensitive information from text.
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Philter Studio 1.0.0
April 1, 2020
Philter Studio is an application for Windows that provides convenient access to removing sensitive information from files and documents using Philter.
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Philter and COVID-19
March 25, 2020
Today we are announcing Philter support for for identifying and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) and PHI in text related to COVID-19.
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Using Philter with Microsoft Power Automate (Flow)
March 18, 2020
This blog post demonstrates how to use Philter with Microsoft Power Automate to redact sensitive information from text.
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Philter SDKs
February 27, 2020
The Philter SDKs provide API clients for interacting with Philter to identify and remove sensitive information from text.
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Filtering Sensitive Information using Apache NiFi with Philter
February 27, 2020
Awhile back we made a post describing how Philter can be used alongside Apache NiFi for identifying and removing sensitive information from text.
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Philter 1.3.1
February 20, 2020
This version of Philter adds support for MAC addresses and tax-payer identification numbers (TINs). Also new is the ability to encrypt sensitive information.
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Philter 1.3.0
January 28, 2020
This version includes various tweaks to improve performance. This version lowers the required time to process text while improving the accuracy of identified information.
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Philter 1.2.0
January 16, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of Philter 1.2.0. This version brings new features to filter profiles along with some minor changes.
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Philter 1.1.0
December 16, 2019
We are happy to announce Philter 1.1.0! This version brings some features we think you will find very useful when redacting sensitive information from text.
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Philter and Elasticsearch
December 12, 2019
Philter 1.1 will offer support for using Elasticsearch as the store for identified PII and PHI.
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Using AWS Kinesis Firehose Transformations to Filter Sensitive Information
November 7, 2019
In this blog post we will show how AWS Kinesis Firehose and AWS Lambda can be used to remove PII and PHI from the data as it travels through the firehose.
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Apache NiFi for Processing PHI Data
November 4, 2019
When PHI is present in Apache NiFi data flows it can present concerns and impose many requirements you may not face otherwise due to regulations such as HIPAA.
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Our Approach to Continuous Delivery for Cloud Marketplaces
October 26, 2019
How we implement continuous delivery across multiple cloud platforms.
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Mountain Fog, Inc. Announces Release of Philter Software to Find and Remove PII and PHI
October 14, 2019
Mountain Fog, Inc. Announces Release of Philter Software to Find and Remove PII and PHI. Philter finds and removes sensitive information such as PII and PHI from text.
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Sneak Peek at Philter Big-Data and ETL Integrations
September 9, 2019
Philter offers integration capabilities with Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, and Apache Pulsar to provide PHI/PII filtering capabilities across your big-data and ETL ecosystems.
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Filter Profiles in Philter
August 25, 2019
Filter Profiles give you complete control over how Philter identifies, redacts, masks, and encrypts sensitive information such as PII and PHI in text.
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PHI in a DevOps Environment
August 17, 2019
The advent of DevOps cultures has helped make knowledge of HIPAA and PHI a team requirement. All team members need to understand what is PHI and the implications of having PHI in a system.
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