Month: January 2020

So, you’ve recently learned about what Test Data Management is and why it’s amazingly valuable. Then, you’ve decided to start a TDM process at your organization. You’ve read about what Data Management includes, learned how TDM works, and finally went on to start implementing your Test Data Management strategy. But then you got stuck, right at the start. You’ve got a question for which you don’t have an answer: how to organize a Test Data Management team?

Well, fear no more, because that’s precisely what today’s post is about.

We start with a brief overview of Test Data Management itself. Feel free to skip, though, if you’re already familiar with the concept. We won’t judge you for that; we’re just that nice.

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When you develop a data security architecture and strategy for your organization, your main objective is to protect the organization’s data.

To do that, you first need to identify all threats and vulnerabilities associated with that data and inform the business about the security risks you identified. Next, you need to introduce appropriate countermeasures to manage those risks based on the risk appetite of the organization. To do that successfully, you need data security controls and you need to have a firm grasp on what the primary objective of data security control is. Today, I want to help by answering these questions in this post.

First, we’ll cover the definition of data security controls, what their main goal is, and why understanding security control objectives are important. Then, we’ll review the seven main security control types and their primary objectives. Following that, we’ll dive into security control categories that allow us to further define these controls. Let’s start by first defining data security controls.

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