Huwprice
April 20th, 2010
Magical mystery tour
Roll up, roll up. I’m going on a mystery tour and I’m inviting you along. I’m going to get in touch with the financial organisations that are part of my life and I’m going to ask them about what journey my personal details can expect to take once they become test data.
It should prove [...]
Huwprice
March 31st, 2010
Why masked data is no good!
I’m a keen bright developer working for a bank working on a new report, the DBAs have given me a full copy of masked production data. To test I need to find some data that’s changed over time. Where should I start? I think my boss has just had a big pay [...]
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 [...]
Jess3589
February 2nd, 2010
HIPAA QA and Grid-Tools Form Joint Venture Enabling Advanced Test Data Solutions Offering Greater Interoperability Across HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10
February 1, 2010 – Naples, FL., London, UK;
HIPAA QA, Inc., a strategic healthcare IT quality assurance service provider focused on delivering best-in-class interoperable testing solutions for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 is pleased to announce a joint venture partnership with Grid-Tools Limited, a leading global vendor of data creation, data masking and test data management software.
The [...]
Jess3589
January 25th, 2010
Using data masking to create ‘anonymous’ datasets
Yesterday morning I woke to find an interesting article in ‘The Observer’ about anonymizing or masking personal data records. This turned out to be somewhat ironic considering I wrote two blogs on this very topic just last week!
The article, written by Anushka Asthana (Policy Editor), discussed the concerns around using data masking or “anonymization techniques” [...]
Jess3589
January 21st, 2010
So, why are you still using data masking?
Most of us have no idea when it comes to figuring out ways to acquire the right kind of data we need for any type of test or development project. We’re lost. We’ve been taking copies of our live environments for years. It’s the only method we know.
There is only [...]
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 [...]
John
November 13th, 2009
Don’t risk not securing your data!
For almost all organizations, their corporate data is an absolutely crucial business asset. Without access to the information in their corporate databases, most companies would be unable to conduct their day-to-day business. While in recent years, most companies have invested heavily in trying to protect the availability of corporate data, there has been a glaring [...]
