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| Extractor
Compliance Edition | |
| Data sensitivity issues and corporate
compliance – where do companies stand? |
Personal and
private data usage by companies is strictly controlled by a host of regulatory
constraints across the world. Examples are: the Data Protection Act in
the UK, HIPAA and Gramm Leach Bliley in the US, PIPEDa in
Canada etc. Any company that handles personal or potentially sensitive data is
required to exercise extreme caution in the ways that such data is stored and
handled. But a
recent
report showed that over 40% of IT departments are using live data for testing
and training purposes. If such data are of a personal or sensitive nature then,
under bodies of legislation like the above, this represents a potentially serious
exposure - especially if the data are outsourced to a third party for testing
or training services. In
recognition of this, Original Software has released the Compliance Edition of
its leading data extraction module, Extractor for iSeries.
The new module is designed to address this key vulnerability by offering an effortless
way to ‘desensitise’ personal data. The new Edition contains a data scrambling
facility that enables users to automatically desensitise personal data – while
still maintaining a structure that can be used sensibly for training or testing
purposes. Extractor
for iSeries, part of Original’s market-leading TestBench suite of iSeries productivity
solutions, is already well established as the iSeries data extraction module of
choice. Its primary function is to create subsets of a live database that retain
referential integrity and are therefore perfect miniature representations of the
live environment. The new ‘data scrambling’ facility then vertically and
logically scrambles the data to provide complete desensitivity protection - yet
without corrupting the underlying data subset.
Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software says: “Regulatory controls are continuing
to have an ever greater impact upon the ways that companies do business. The various
data control measures all carry with them serious penalties, including fines and
imprisonment. What we offer here is a fast and easy solution for iSeries users
to ensure that they do not fall foul of such legislation – while leveraging all
the other benefits of using the leading iSeries data extraction solution.”
Extractor Compliance Edition also includes as standard: database auto-analysis,
automated data maintenance, data manipulation (updating, sampling, archiving),
and extraction reports for auditing. Extractor will replicate the structure of
the database and provide an exact reduced replica according to user-preset parameters.
These combine to provide better quality test data, and avoid the disk space issues
inherent in production database copies. More
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