Date: 2010-03-09 Category: Events
Sensitive Data Management
Wednesday 17th March 2010
6.30 - 8.30pm Doors open 6pm
Robert Recorde Room, Faraday Building
Swansea University SA2 8PP
Guest Speaker: Huw Price, Grid Tools
Using production data in development and testing is nowadays becoming more and more unacceptable. Increased legislation, company fines, highly embarrassing data loss and data theft are forcing companies to take a look at how they use production data for development and testing.
In addition, the increased use of offshore, near shore and virtual images opens up all sorts of problems for securing your data from prying eyes.
In this presentation Huw will outline the pitfalls and liabilities of allowing access to live data and will offer expert advice on minimising risk during development and test phases.
About the speaker
With over a 20 year career, Huw Price has been the lead technical architect for several US and European software companies. Specialising 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.
Links for more information
http://www.grid-tools.com/blog/uncategorized/long-arm-of-the-law
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/business/profiles/4853550.Grid_Tools/
