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DATA PRIVACY SOLUTION

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The SoftBase TestBase solution allows companies to quickly secure ALL confidential and sensitive data in their DB2 testing environments.

1. Production Data
Stores:

Confidential and sensitive data is found in many production data stores. Recent legislation such as HIPAA and the Act Sarbanes-Oxley have forced companies to reexamine how they protect their key business data.

2. DB2 Tables/Legacy
Data Containing
Sensitive Data:

When testing DB2 applications, companies must now be certain to remove any confidential information such as employee salary or social security numbers from their test data.

3. Build Mandatory
Masking Rules:

All sensitive data must be removed from test data BEFORE being loaded into the DB2 testing environment.

4. Remove/Replace Sensitive Data:

There are a variety of ways to protect sensitive data in DB2 test environments. Data can be transformed, changed, and replaced in the DB2 tables where it resides - all in one step. No sensitive data is ever placed on test DASD.

5. DB2 Test Data :

However, the testing environment still requires meaningful data in sensitive DB2 table columns. Application tests still require meaningful and realistic business data to properly validate that code changes are working properly.

6. Auditor Verification
Reports:

Many corporations and IT departments must now provide definitive proof that they are in compliance with Data Privacy Mandates and have protected all sensitive data in their test environment.

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"Data Privacy will come into play with Social Security numbers where, with TestBase, we can let users see the data but it will mask the numbers, unless it's somebody with security clearance to see it."

- Jeff Boggess, Database Administrator of North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance