Archive for the ‘Synthetic versus Masked Data’ Category
VanessaHoward
February 26th, 2010
Long arm of the Law
Sometimes governments can be forward-thinking – no, really bear with me – and initiatives arrive you can quietly applaud.
The Welsh Assembly Government’s e-Crime Wales is a partnership of organisations, agencies and the police – that it has dedicated police business liaison officers is thought to be a world’s first.
Data loss and security breaches [...]
JamesKoopmann
December 9th, 2009
When security is a concern, synthetic data generation is unmatched
Gartner reports that more than 80% of companies will use live production data for nonproduction purposes. This can include BI, QA, Development, and Testing. Clearly we all know by now the problems with moving production data around to non-production and non-secure environments. I mean really, how many times do we have to read about data theft? The problem here lies in the fact that these systems need data. So why do we just copy production data? I’ll tell you, it’s just darn too easy to get what you want and for the most part intentions to not leak information are usually good.
Richardbender
November 13th, 2009
Synthetic test data versus masked test data
Another interesting topic to address is the trade-off between synthetic test data and scrubbed or masked test data. I got into this discussion with someone today who has a strong background in security related issues. He was saying that scrubbed or de-identified test data can be un-scrubbed via various methods – e.g. reverse engineering the [...]
