As digital transformation continues to evolve, test data management (TDM) plays a key role in ensuring data security, compliance, and efficiency. TDM 2.0 introduces significant improvements over TDM 1.0, building on its strengths while incorporating modern, cloud-native technologies. These advancements enhance…
The ROI of Test Data Management Tool
As software teams increasingly take a “shift left” approach to software testing, the need to reduce testing cycle times and improve the rigor of tests is growing in lock-step. This creates a conundrum: Testing coverage and completeness is deeply dependent on…
Static Data Masking vs. Dynamic Data Masking: What does your organization need?
Although both static data masking (SDM) and dynamic data masking (DDM) have been around for half a decade, there is still some general confusion as to how these tools differ. The problem is not that the technical differences are not well…
Data Security Platform: Securing the Digital Perimeter
In today’s data-driven world, organizations face increasing challenges in protecting sensitive information while ensuring compliance with stringent data privacy regulations. The exponential growth of data has also led to a higher risk of unauthorized access, breaches and cyber-attacks being faced by…
What to Look for in a Sensitive Data Discovery Tool
Selecting the right sensitive data discovery tool for your organization can be challenging. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that you will only get a feel for how effective your choice is after purchasing and implementing it. However, there…
Seven Key Test Data Management Metrics to Understand and Track
If your organization performs software testing, then you probably use test data in some form. But is your process for producing, updating, and implementing that test data adding net value for the organization? Or is it a hidden roadblock to producing…
Four Best Practices for Test Data Management in the Banking Sector
While managing test data may not be as exciting as what financial institutions can do with analytics, poorly managed test data holds an existential risk. Imagine a rare bug that failed to be uncovered during testing—something that reported a balance of…
Why Do Test Data Management (TDM) Projects Fail?
Test data, and Test Data Management, remain a huge challenge for tech-driven companies around the globe. Having good test data is a boon to the organization: It helps support rigorous testing to ensure that software is stable and reliable, while also…
What is Data Provisioning in Test Data Management?
If your company has taken the time to master test data generation—including steps to ensure that your test data is free from personally identifiable information, is suitable for different tests, and is representative of your data as a whole—data provisioning might…
How to Create a Secure Test Data Management Strategy
Proper Test Data Management helps businesses create better products that perform more reliably on deployment. But creating test data, in the right amount and with the right kinds of relationships, can be a much-more-challenging process than one would think. Getting the…