Test data management for government and public agencies

How can Grid-Tools help to de-identify sensitive records for government agencies?

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UK Central Government

Local, Federal, State and departmental government and public agencies are struggling with difficult challenges stemming from the highly sensitive and private nature of the data they are storing and using daily. Not only is this data sensitive in nature, it is also generally large in volume, complex and is stored many different databases and data sources.

Most government agencies are facing three significant challenges when it comes to test data management:

• Provisioning high quality test data whilst maintaining data security
• Provisioning data which resembles the data in live environments, but maintains relational and structural integrity (and also remains anonymous)
• Enhancing, editing and manipulating test and development data based on specific project requirements and scenarios

In order to successfully manage testing and development, government organizations must also access and share test data throughout various test teams and even offshore service providers. However, how is it possible to provide test and development teams with de-identified test data which maintains the structural and relational integrity of live environments? Grid-Tools offers three different methods:

• Database subsetting:Create secure, smaller, targeted, referentially intact versions of databases for testing and development
• Data masking:Secure sensitive data records for use outside of live environments using sophisticated de-identification and obfuscation techniques
• Test data creation:Create high-quality synthetic test data from scratch using dynamic data modeling and sampling

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