Data Needs To Be Anonymized For Dev And Test

November 14, 2018 Scott Heinlein

(Sponsored Content) Every company needs to create applications and then test those applications against a database that has real data in it. And therefore, most companies will take their test data from production databases and make a copy of it, or a subset of it, to do such testing, usually by doing a bulk copy. And at that moment, all of the sensitive data in that database is exposed to the programmers and testers.

Given that in excess of 80 percent of information leaks start from an internal source, this is a potential – and possibly great – …