Sensitive data found in non-production environment
- 25 Aug 2023
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Sensitive data found in non-production environment
- Updated on 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.