GDPR requires organizations to protect personal data wherever they use it, including in development and testing environments. But teams still need realistic data to build, test, and train effectively. That’s where data masking comes in. It protects sensitive information while keeping data useful. GDPR doesn’t specifically require data masking, but masking can help organizations meet […]
The intention of environment synthetics is to provide ‘high-level confidence’ that applications (your system instances, e.g., UAT Home Loan System) and their underlying component services (e.g., IIS, MSQL, Oracle, LDAP, etc.) are operational and available for testing. An ongoing activity that is laborious and surprisingly still completed manually in many organizations. An approach that is […]
Information technology and the digital world don’t exist without data. The data of an organization can contain a lot of unclassified, as well as classified, information. Irrespective of that, only authorized personnel should have access to data. However, malicious actors try to breach security and gain access to data, and it’s not good for the […]
Preamble These days, deploying our services to the cloud just makes sense. Deploying to the cloud means you’re letting someone else handle low-level infrastructure costs, which gives us incredible flexibility. And with such flexibility comes a potentially overwhelming set of options for the best ways we can monitor our systems and take advantage of how […]
It’s the normal case with software buzzwords that people focus so much on what something is that they forget what it is not. DevOps is no exception. To truly embrace DevOps and cherish what it is, it’s important to comprehend what it isn’t. A plethora of resources are available in the form of definitions, principles, and guidelines that […]
Waiting for bad things to happen is never a good practice. Once a system is down, it may already be too late, and damage to the business could be irreversible. IT resilience is about preventing a disaster recovery situation before it happens. Critical outages often have a negative impact on the entire organization, hurting reputation […]