On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Scott Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> See, i'm not buying that :)
> Risk matrix - Consequences vs Likelihood.
> Questions - Why are developers working with production grade data (customers
> info etc).

Because only production data is a large enough set to do certain
testing.  (speed, queries that return extremely large recordsets, etc)

> Shouldn't that be partitioned off into a more secure locked down
> release area only. Developers working with "Foo Jones" is imho the counter
> pill to the for mentioned claim.
> Placing the developer pool in their own DMZ sandbox imho is also the way
> forward, so if they are compromised its contained and all data etc should be
> test data that doesn't include sensitive information.

Better, but still not good if you want to be testing many many
connections/users to a large db.

> IP getting stolen? Theres a million ways to bypass a locked down machine to
> get the data in/out ..if someone were to expose the code base or documents
> it first is likely they are moving data outside the confines of the said PC
> and secondly are likely to screw up no matter how much Sys Admin nannying is
> in place.

And testing for the overhead caused by nannying is useful, too.



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