The story
GDPR, data privacy, data protection regulations have raised more questions around the handling of data than ever before.
Personally Identifiable information (PII) is any information about a client that could be used for identification. It includes names, family names, addresses, national identification numbers, bank account numbers, phone numbers, email address and more.
During IT projects, production data is copied into test, QA or pre-production environments, and exposed to the eyes of testers, receivers or unauthorized developers on machines much less protected than production environments.
Many files are also shared with external partners, who often only require a small part of the data actually sent.
However, the data must remain usable. A test user must still see on the screen, in the last name field, a modified last name that “looks like” a last name.
Using More4apps you can anonymize Master Data for test purposes quickly and with no effort.
More4apps Wizards also enables creating smaller databases by extracting subsets of data from production, masking the data, and keeping the database and application level referential integrity intact on the way.
This case study explains how an industrial distributor in North America has started using More4apps to get more securitized data during their projects.
The company provides a broad range of products and value-added services to approximately 500,000 professional customers in maintenance, repair and operations, infrastructure and power and specialty construction sectors.