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Dynamic Data Masking Combats Daunting Data Breach Risks
It seems like every day a new data breach splashes across the news. As consumers, patients, customers and social networkers many of us have a plethora of information stored in various databases well outside our control. Data security officers, DBAs and other security specialists continue to do their best to educate, protect and anticipate both internal and external threats. But … the breaches continue and so do their associated costs. There are many technologies from encryption to tokenization to database activity monitoring (DAM) to data loss prevention (DLP).
Informatica just released a new option to the mix: dynamic data masking. The technology came into the company through the acquisition of ActiveBase. Since then I’ve had a number of people ask me if Informatica Dynamic Data Masking will complement or replace an organization’s existing data security technologies.
Your Biggest IT Security Nightmare – Non-Production Data
Everyone is worried about data security and privacy as they should be; for data to be trusted, users and management need confidence in not just knowing that data is correct, but also in knowing that it is secure and that access is permitted only in controlled situations. There is no shortage of security disaster stories, but I’m not worried about production data since it is at the heart of application management disciplines which, while still not perfect, have had 50 years to mature. This perspective is stated succinctly by Ronald Reagan when he spoke about the economy and said “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.” (more…)
ROI Tool To Help Make The Business Case For Database Archiving, Application Retirement, Test Data Management, And Data Masking
Though the benefits of containing the size of your databases by archiving seems obvious in terms of saving costs and improving performance, quantifying those benefits in terms of dollar savings requires more thought. The same is true when it comes to the costs that can be eliminated by retiring redundant legacy applications. Some of the savings may come from hard dollar costs such as:
- Storage
- Backup devices
- Maintenance contracts
- Software licenses (more…)
Elevate The Data Masking Conversation – Richard Clarke At Informatica World 2010
Recently at Informatica World, 2010 in Washington, DC, Richard Clark was a featured speaker during one of the general sessions. He was the former Counterterrorism Czar, serving multiple presidencies in the White House, working for the Pentagon and the Intelligence Community, and is currently the Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting Services, LLC – a 360° Security Risk Management firm. There was no one better suited to discuss corporate information security and risk management where the entire theme of the event was Beyond Boundaries.
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A Data Masking Conversation
I recently visited a client running multiple SAP applications with three non-production copies per environment - a separate copy for Test, Development, and Training. When asked what data they were using for the non-production copies, they stated they preferred to use data from production because they were guaranteed to have the latest, up to date information which should eliminate any testing issues associated with the data itself.