Government

Government exists to serve the people.

As a consequence, government organizations possess and maintain unimaginable amounts of personal information, including addresses, tax information, national identifiers, and birth records. Hundreds of thousands of applications and databases are required to process and analyze this data, which is further complicated by the fact that these applications are maintained by contractors. Testing these applications with real data compromises information security by risking theft from insiders and outsourcers; yet, realistic data is required to ensure these applications function properly. Using Camouflage to create realistic data for use in these non-production environments is the solution.

Governments all over the globe are held accountable by privacy legislation: the US Privacy Act, the EU Data Protection Directive, the Privacy Act in Canada and Australia… and the list goes on. The most appropriate way to protect against inside theft is to use data masking to create realistic data for use in these non-production environments.

The information security practices of government agencies have a direct impact on public confidence in government – no agency director, CEO, CIO, or CISO wants to have a breach of PHI on their watch, and no information security manager or DBA wants to become a scapegoat. Government data breaches make great news stories which usually require terminations and media statements that waste time and energy, and often have no noticeable impact in restoring trust.  Expensive lawsuits are inevitable.

Using Camouflage to create realistic data will protect against data theft.

• Facilitate the work of contractors by eliminating national identifiers, and other sensitive information from records
• Create data for analysis while limiting access by “need-to-know”
• Test system interoperability.