Eoghan Casey, vice president of cybersecurity strategy and product development at Own Company, said government agencies should understand the importance of seeding high-quality data into realistic production environments to facilitate the delivery of secure digital services to the public.
In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Casey wrote that the company’s Own Accelerate platform within Salesforce could help agencies expedite application development and testing by seeding quality data into developer or sandbox environments.
“With Accelerate, agencies can schedule or create refreshed sandboxes without wiping out their old data. They can also seed sandboxes from backup data, which is essential for AI applications,” he noted.
The Own executive stressed the need for agencies to anonymize the data they use in sandbox environments to protect sensitive information and discussed how Accelerate enables that capability.
“This capability allows them to strike a balance between innovation and security,” Casey added.
In this piece, Casey said agencies should prioritize data classification, field-level encryption of sensitive data, data access management and other security measures within pre-preduction environments to address issues prior to deployment and deliver secure applications.
He also mentioned Own’s Secure for Salesforce and how the product could help agencies streamline the process of developing security models to safeguard data security controls while producing data security reports in real time.
