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Potential Dangers in the Application Test Environment While organisations may think that test data is immune from privacy threats or is less important than other risks, the truth is that these environments are often more vulnerable. Test environments are less secure and may be exposed to a variety of unauthorised sources, including in-house testing staff, consultants, partners, and offshore development and support personnel. Securing test data is essential to avoid privacy abuses and data mishandling, and to lower the cost of compliance as well. Another area within compliance testing that may cost your company money is wasted system resources. If your company’s testing effort is not driven by a good methodology, solid products and skilled people, you could be incurring unnecessary MIPS and CPU consumption. Liability plays a role in testing as well. For many companies, compliance efforts will be subject to ongoing audits and accordance must be proven. For many organisations, Data Privacy is new territory. Hiring a Chief Compliance Officer or Security Administrator, or making this the responsibility of an existing executive, is just one component of a good data privacy plan. Another step many businesses are taking is to launch corporate ‘data security’ awareness programs. These initiatives are designed to educate not only those individuals working daily with sensitive data, but all employees. Core reasons vary from due diligence, to good corporate communication, to avoiding a company-wide ’it could never happen to our company’ attitude. An employee wouldn’t hand someone they didn’t know the ’keys to the front door’. So, it is just as important that all employees understand the risk of transmitting sensitive data (knowingly or not) to an insecure environment. All individuals at all companies are in some way responsible for keeping corporate data secure. Technology is the “magic carpet” that facilitates the global economy. For many businesses, it is the key to strong financial growth and competitive market-share gains and for some, it is the only avenue to an international marketplace. This same magic carpet, however, serves as a welcome mat for many potential problems. If your company operates internationally, be aware that data privacy laws and the enforcement of these laws vary country to country. Does Your Company Have a Plan in Place? Today, Compuware is helping many companies identify and secure their test data by providing the people, processes, and the use of products for both mainframe and distributed platforms. Your company has the power to prevent and/or minimise the damage to your corporate purse and reputation due to a security breach—possibly by using tools you may already own. If you or your company’s Chief Privacy Officer would like to read more about Compuware’s Data Privacy Solution, please follow this link. Data Privacy through Compuware File-AID, File-AID/RDX, and File-AID/Data Solutions — Our data privacy workbench enables you to scramble, translate, generate, age, analyze and validate test data. If you need additional help, we have people with the knowledge and experience to manage the process. Application Auditing through Compuware Hiperstation —This solution builds on Compuware's application security leadership and award-winning products by enabling IT organizations to proactively address the enterprise application security challenge. Compuware’s Application Auditing solution:
To learn more about how to protect your critical applications, click here to download the Compuware white paper, “Application Auditing: Guidelines for Investigating Internal Data Breaches.” Also view an on-demand webcast, “Take IT Security One Step Further—Investigating Internal Data Breaches.” Vital Signs: How Dashboards Can Prevent Business Service Failures When a vital business service goes wrong, whose fault is it? In this article, Michael Allen of Compuware argues that responsibility is shared equally between the business department and IT, and the two must work hand in hand to address any problems. Dashboards that show in real time how IT processes are impacting key business services can be invaluable tools to help both departments understand what’s gone wrong and agree what needs to be done to restore service. From Mobile to Mainframe: New Uniface Application Platform Suite Covers All Bases As the world becomes increasingly more connected, enteprises need applications that work equally well on mobile phones and mainframes – and everything in between. The challenge for developers is to create applications that can effortlessly and elegantly span platforms and devices. Help is hand with Compuware’s newly-launched Uniface Application Platform Suite 9.2, designed for multi-channel, service-oriented web application development. With new support for Window Vista and Windows Mobile environments, Uniface APS 9.2 is one of the few platforms available today that can deploy applications on virtually any platform. |
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