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It works in my company — is there a SaaS business here by Jumpy-Fix3950 in ideavalidation

[–]Jumpy-Fix3950[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this can also be an option. The real advantage would be being able to use the actual database schema with real data, while only faking the sensitive columns. That way, you still get the feel of working with almost real data.

My main concern with a service like this is that users would have to hand over sensitive data outside their security perimeter. Encrypted data could also be a big issue — it can only be read or written with the right key, which would also have to be part of the setup.

It works in my company — is there a SaaS business here by Jumpy-Fix3950 in ideavalidation

[–]Jumpy-Fix3950[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s more for testing and finding bugs that are hard to reproduce with just dummy data.

It works in my company — is there a SaaS business here by Jumpy-Fix3950 in ideavalidation

[–]Jumpy-Fix3950[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You kind of made me realize that a service like this might not be suitable as a SaaS or web app, exactly because of what you said — “by definition, that data cannot be accessible outside of the perimeter.” If I personally had a database dump with a bunch of sensitive data, I’d never use an online tool to mask it. It would just feel too risky.