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Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone

Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, said production data in test environments remains common and urged teams to adopt alternatives, citing her team's discovery of a prompt injection gap during red-teaming that delayed a release by a week. Dean noted that AI vendors are often rejected for vague answers about data storage and retention.

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In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the alternatives are good enough now. She explains how her team caught a prompt injection gap in red-teaming and held a release for a week until it was fixed. Dean describes what gets an AI vendor rejected, mostly vague answers about where data lives and how long it is kept. She … More

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