Data masking secures sensitive data in non-production environments

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Allowing sensitive data from production applications to be copied and used for development and testing environments increases the potential for theft, loss or exposure -- thus increasing the organization's risk. Data masking is emerging as a best practice for obfuscating real data so it can be safely used in non-production environments. This helps organizations meet compliance requirements for PCI, HIPAA, GLBA and other data privacy regulations. Read full story Related News: Is the federal stimulus creating tech jobs? The government isn't saying One obvious follow-up question to the U.S. government's announcement this month that the federal stimulus has created or saved 30,000 jobs so far is this: How many were IT and engineering jobs? Unfortunately, there isn't an answer. 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