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 [...]
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 [...]