Webinar: Meeting the Compliance Challenges in Test and Development Environments

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT, 4:00 PM UK, 8:30 PM IST

The challenges pertaining to compliance in test and development environments range from saving sensitive data to adhering to compliance rules. The technical challenges of saving data which is available across the multiple applications and versions, needs a deep knowledge of all applications, which can be time consuming and resource intensive. Also, developing custom code in-house to protect sensitive application data is complex and intensive, requiring intimate application knowledge and continuous maintenance.

The pressure of data usage by the governing bodies, the outcome data breaches and compliance issues, like fair and lawful processing, processing minimum data, securing data, add to its list of challenges. IT organizations must address these and at the same time, they need to manage ever increasing audit and regulatory compliance requirements, as well as IT costs and budgets. All these concerns will be addressed in this live webinar hosted by Huw Price, Managing Director of Grid-Tools, a strategic partner of AppLabs. The webinar will take you through the following solutions:

  • Database Subsetting, creating secure, broken down versions of a production database used for non‐production environments
  • Data Masking, using obfuscating functions to anonymize production data so that when it is used in non‐production it is unrecognizable and compliant with regulating bodies
  • Synthetic Test Data Generation, through a modeling and sampling process, data that has all of the referential integrity and likeness of production environments is generated from scratch.

This Webinar is aimed at the following roles within organizations:

  • CIO/IT Directors
  • Web Application Developers
  • Development Project Managers
  • Head of Testing/Test Managers
  • Test Environment Managers/Test Architects
  • Testing Professionals

Profile of the presenter:

Huw Price
Managing Director
Grid-Tools

With nearly a 30 year career, Huw Price has been the lead technical architect for several US and European software companies. Specializing in test automation tools, he has launched numerous innovative products which have re-cast the testing model used in the software industry. As well as building new products, he has become a serial entrepreneur building-up three software companies and selling their technology to larger, less agile competitors.

Huw has provided high-level architecture design support to multinational banks, major utility vendors and health care providers. A strong believer in balancing pragmatism with a visionary approach, he has been able to rapidly bring new products to market while maintaining strong quality control.

Huw’s newest venture, Grid-Tools, has quickly redefined how large organizations need to approach their testing strategy. Voted “Most Innovative Testing Tool of 2008” by QA Guild, Grid-Tools has introduced a strong data-centric approach to testing, launching new concepts such as “Data Objects”, “Data Inheritance” and “A Central Test Data Warehouse.” Currently working with leading edge testing companies such as Fiorano, Facilita, AQA and Emprix, Grid-Tools is building on the strategy of improving automation tools and associated structured methodologies.

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