With the advent of the Internet and in response to global governmental regulations like theGramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act for financial services and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for healthcare, businesses now understand that they must secure the privacy of their client's NPPI not just for compliance, but to earn their client's trust, as well.
The need for data privacy significantly impacts existing application testing environments, their processes and procedures, because the data used to produce valid tests must be as realistic as production data to be useful, yet must not reveal any information considered client confidential. If the data is not de-identified, your company could face stiff data privacy violation penalties.