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 [...]
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Grid-Tools brings objects to synthetic data generation
Developing an application to meet business needs relies not only on technology but also on the ability to test the technology used. In a recent study, Gartner identified key reasons why projects fail. Within the top 5 reasons it was recognized that “Too many project changes resulted in an overly complex system that was hard to test.” Likewise, Gartner also recognized a “hit list” of the most common problems associated with the increased risk of failures in SOA projects included “no proof of concept and no stress tests”.
Continue readingSynthetic 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 [...]
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