By Mary Weiss, Sales Representative

Many companies are dealing with increased external regulations such as HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and California identity theft legislation. There is also a growing need in the workplace for internal controls that protect sensitive customer information.

Using live data for testing and training is standard practice for many IT departments. If the test data includes sensitive customer information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and so on, this could represent a potentially serious exposure — particularly if the test data is out-sourced or used to support training services.

The TestBench product's Extractor component has a new Compliance Edition that is designed to address this alarming vulnerability. The new edition contains a data scrambling utility that your testing staff can use to automatically de-sensitize personal data, while still maintaining a structure that can be used for training or testing. Extractor's primary function is to create, from a live iSeries database, subsets of "safe" data that retain referential integrity, providing a miniature representation of the live environment.

Extractor Compliance Edition also includes database auto-analysis; automated data maintenance; data manipulation (updating, sampling, archiving); and extraction reports for auditing. Extractor duplicates the structure of the database and provides an exact reduced replica based on your pre-set parameters. These combine to provide better quality test data and to avoid the disk space issues inherent in production database copies.

The new module is part of the TestBench suite of automated testing tools.

For more information, call me at 800-545-9485 (outside the US, dial 603-924-8818). Dial extension #511.

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