Are you using real customer data for testing? In a recent survey, well over 60 percent of IT professionals use live customer data for application testing and for software development. Guess how many IT professionals outsource application testing (and share live data with the testing company)—about 50 percent. Worried about sensitive data? Compliance with data breach statutes? Privacy concerns? Is this a potential gap in the security wall many companies build around their networks? You bet. Could it be a big compliance, legal and regulatory problem? Bigger bet. While live customer data is obviously the most representative for testing, it’s also the most risky. What can you do? Use fake data. Anonymize or sanitize real data. Use encryption. Limit access and strengthen contract, monitoring and audit controls. We know privacy and security, regulation and compliance. Call us.
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