Sensitive data found in non-production environment
    • 25 Aug 2023
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    Description

    Datastores in non-production environments should not hold sensitive data

    Rationale

    Non-production environments tend to have more relaxed security constraints and broader access for engineering teams. Sensitive data from production should be anonymized or tokenized before using for dev/test purposes.

    Remediation

    Delete the data or carefully the security policies around use of that data similar to how it is handled in production environments.