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Why Policy-Driven Data Obfuscation Should be the Cornerstone of Your Enterprise Data Security Strategy

By Robert Patten posted 7 days ago
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IT teams are oftentimes faced with complex challenges regarding enterprise-wide data security, but a clearly articulated, policy-driven data masking technique can ease implementation and reduce cost. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here March 28, 2019. O ne of the most common security issues that enterprise software teams overlook is securing their non-production environments, which is where the majority of sensitive data lies within an enterprise. Non-production environments is where software teams develop and test application changes using copies of real customer and company data, and the sheer number and ...
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Keeping Pace with Digital Innovation: Empowering Banks with Delphix

By Andrew Hinde posted 15 days ago
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By leveraging Delphix's capabilities, banks can drive operational efficiency, accelerate innovation, and deliver reliable and convenient products and services to their customers. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here August 23, 2023. D ue to the rapidly changing market, banks must embrace digital innovation to stay ahead of the competition and meet customer expectations. Delivering reliable and convenient products and services requires faster digital delivery, efficient data management, and streamlined processes. However, traditional data provisioning methods and compliance requirements often clash with agile DevOps ...
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Legacy move-to-asm.sh Script End-of-Life Notification: Continuous Data

By Yatin Nayak posted 10-30-2023
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The move-to-asm.sh script procedure, documented here , provides the ability to move virtual Oracle non-multitenant databases to ASM. This procedure does not support Oracle multitenant databases. The Oracle V2ASM CLI export features that shipped in Continuous Data 9.0.0.0 and 12.0.0.0 and later now cover the functionality of move-to-asm.sh in its entirety and additionally support Oracle multitenant databases. The legacy script is now less feature-rich and unnecessary. The following note was previously added to the Continuous Data deprecated features list at 9.0.0.0 GA (March 2023): Release 9.0.0.0 Deprecated features Oracle Oracle ...
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The Missing Element from Most Internal Developer Platforms: Test Data Management

By Susan DiFranco posted 10-24-2023
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Internal developer platforms (IDPs) help many enterprises accelerate high-quality software development by giving teams highly reusable and automated tools and environments. Discover why automated test data management must be an integral part of an effective IDP strategy. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here July 27, 2023. I nternal developer platforms (IDPs) are tools organizations use to build, deploy, and manage software applications in a more efficient and streamlined way. IDPs provide developers with pre-built components, frameworks, and best practices that can be used to develop and deploy applications in ...
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Legacy Database Profiling End of Life

By Claire McManus posted 09-21-2023
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Introduction The legacy profiler for databases is deprecated as of release 15.0. It will reach End of Life and be removed from Delphix Continuous Compliance in a further twelve months. This guide explains how to check if you are using the legacy profiler in any profiling jobs and how to update these jobs to use the Automated Sensitive Data Discovery (ASDD) profiler. This notice does not apply to the legacy profiler for files. How to identify if you are affected Using the API Log into the API client Call the GET /profile-sets/usage endpoint with the following filters: profileSetType: LEGACY connectorType: ...
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Delphix Virtual Meetup: Multicloud Compliance at Scale

By Michael Torok posted 09-21-2023
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Join us for a virtual meetup with our product leaders! Explore how our unique compliance capabilities address the challenges of developing and modernizing applications in multicloud environments. In these environments, rapidly discovering and masking terabytes of sensitive data across diverse cloud platforms like Azure, Salesforce, and Snowflake can be a complex task. This creates distinctive data security and privacy challenges for developers, analysts, testers, and support teams. To discover how we empower you to meet modern requirements at speed and scale,we invite you to a virtual meetup with our product leaders. Our experts will provide ...
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Security Notice for Community & Academy (2023-09-18)

By Michael Torok posted 09-18-2023
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On August 30th, 2023 the advanced search functionality used for community.delphix.com and academy.delphix.com was found to suffer from a reflected XSS vulnerability: certain user input was not being properly sanitized in a search parameter. The advanced search functionality was immediately disabled while a fix was worked on. This was resolved by implementing additional controls to validate and sanitize user input. This type of vulnerability has the potential to be quite serious and can lead to execution of malicious code in the victim’s browser tab without their knowledge or consent. However, In this case there are several important mitigating ...
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The Impact of Test Data Management on the Application Development Budget

By Todd Tucker posted 09-12-2023
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Replicating, provisioning and maintaining test data often consumes a significant portion of the application development budget. Discover the often hidden ways in which poor test data management costs you money and the proven methods for freeing money to fund productive investments. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here July 21, 2023. Storing, optimizing, protecting, and serving up data of any type is often quite expensive. Unfortunately, the process many businesses use to provide data to their developers and testers is more expensive than it should be, and goes well beyond the cost of data storage. In this article ...
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3 Takeaways from Data Company Summit London 2023

By Stephen Barrett posted 08-15-2023
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Featuring luminary speakers representing a variety of industries, Delphix’s Data Company Summit 2023 in London offered IT leaders a practical roadmap for learning how to unleash continuous innovation and compliance This article was originally published on the Delphix website here July 06, 2023. D elphix’s 2023 Data Company Summit (DCS) London was an outstanding event. Held at Sea Containers House adjacent to the River Thames, DCS presented IT leaders and professionals with a fantastic opportunity to learn how technology leaders are addressing key topics on the CIO agenda, recognise IT innovation, and network with new and familiar ...
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Fixing an Invalid Masking Algorithm

By Lisa Bettcher posted 08-01-2023
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In the Delphix Continuous Compliance 13 release, we added indicators in the GUI and API to identify an invalid algorithm. In rare cases, after engine sync import from a previous version or engine upgrade, a note may appear at the top of the algorithms list and an algorithm is highlighted in yellow or red. This indicates that an algorithm is invalid, either incompatible with the current engine version or misconfigured. The algorithm is unusable until the issue is corrected. Some cases can be fixed by editing the algorithm configuration, while others may require assistance from support. This guide explains how to identify and fix the affected algorithm. How ...
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Announcing Delphix Compliance Services for Microsoft Fabric: Automating Data Compliance in Microsoft’s Next-Generation Platform

By Tess Kassier posted 08-01-2023
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Overall, the collaboration between Delphix and Microsoft brings a wealth of value to large enterprises, providing a seamless and efficient way to achieve multi-cloud compliance while also unifying their data estate for analytics. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here May 23, 2023. T oday at Microsoft Build , Microsoft announced their next generation data platform, Microsoft Fabric. Delphix is proud and excited to be part of this solution and included in today’s announcement and the Microsoft Build demo session . Reflecting Microsoft and Delphix’s joint commitment to partner success and ...
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Delphix Documentation Updates Are Now Live

By Michael Torok posted 07-24-2023
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Hi, We are reaching out to let you know of changes that have been made to Delphix’s documentation sites. We have moved the entirety of our documentation to a single provider and are actively working to unify the look and feel of the platform. How does this help? We are now generating documentation for all versions of our products with a single tool and moving toward a single platform. This will allow us to provide a more unified documentation experience and apply changes more quickly. What can you expect? As of July 24, base URLs for our documentation pages will remain the same and redirect you to the new sites. If you have saved deeper ...
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ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Makes Data Masking a Global Security Standard

By Pritesh Parekh posted 07-18-2023
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ISO/IEC 27001:2022 has been updated to reflect information security's latest developments while also addressing evolving threats, and one of the key changes is a new requirement for data masking. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here May 15, 2023. I SO/IEC 27001:2022 is the latest version of the international standard for information security management systems (ISMS). The previous version, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, has been updated to reflect the evolving threat landscape and to ensure that organizations are better equipped to manage the risks associated with information security. Among the additions ...
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Delphix Virtual Meetup: A Deep Dive into Data Control Tower

By Michael Torok posted 07-12-2023
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Join us for a virtual meetup with our product leaders! Organizations face unprecedented privacy compliance risks, placing a burden on data managers to effectively mitigate these risks. However, striking a balance between compliance and productivity is a challenge as addressing these risks often leads to slower release cycles and reduced efficiency. Delphix's Data Control Tower (DCT) simplifies the process by providing centralized management, seamless toolchain integration, and enhanced self-service features. It automates test data management, facilitates easier data access for developers, and automates common developer tasks. DCT is designed ...
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Case Submission Form and Community Search Updates

By Michael Torok posted 06-22-2023
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At Delphix, we are always looking for ways to improve the experience of our customers. With this in mind, our type-ahead search has been updated in the case submission form. Now, as you begin your support journey, our federated search tool will offer relevant information from all our properties based on the title of your case. The results are displayed on the right side of the form and provide optional knowledge sources without interfering with the form. Should one of the surfaced articles apply and you select it, the article will open in a new tab, ensuring you do not lose your place in the form. We have also extended the search within our Delphix ...
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3 Lessons Learned From Delphix FSI

By Stephen Barrett posted 06-21-2023
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The success of Delphix’s DevOps Test Data Management in Finance Event shows that there’s a lot of demand for best practices and solutions for DevOps test data management within the finance sector. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here April 19, 2023. I t’s been a few weeks since Delphix’s DevOps Test Data Management in Finance Event at London’s South Place Hotel, and I’m still proud of its accomplishments. With over 20 financial organisations being represented at the event it was one of the most engaging events we’ve held in London, showing the importance of the topic. Clearly, there’s a lot of demand ...
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Introducing the Delphix Spoke for ServiceNow

By Nicholas Mathison posted 06-06-2023
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The Delphix Spoke for ServiceNow provides out-of-the-box, automated workflows and actions, as well as a self-service catalog to enable application teams to manage their test data environments. This article was originally published on the Delphix website here April 17, 2023. Today’s enterprises require better systems to help automate and govern cross-functional tasks as their tools, processes, and organization scale. ServiceNow’s ITSM offering has become a de facto standard for IT administrators to establish repeatable processes for frequent data requests while ensuring approval compliance. In fact, many existing Delphix customers ...
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Deprecation and planned End-of-Life (EoL) notice for Job Wizard Feature from Continuous Compliance Engine GUI

By Anoop Kumar posted 05-31-2023
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Hello Delphix Community, We are reaching out to let you know that the Job Wizard feature in the Continuous Compliance Engine GUI is deprecated as of the 11.0.0.0 release. The Job Wizard offers a simplified job creation experience, but only for a limited set of data platforms. We are incrementally upgrading the existing Continuous Compliance UI pages with new, reactive interfaces and improved user experiences. As part of that process, the job wizard's capabilities will be incorporated into the product's standard workflows, which makes them available for all data sources. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your Delphix account team if you have any ...
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Data Control Tower (DCT) - Access Control Implementation

By Nicholas Mathison posted 05-26-2023
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DCT Access Control Implementation Summary Data Control Tower (DCT) fundamentally changes how application teams are governed across the Delphix Platform to ease expansion and management burden. Previously, Delphix administrators were focused on managing individual user-level access on each engine. This made it difficult as teams increased their data set requirements. This inevitably led to more time managing engine access and not rolling out test data management (TDM) practices. Now with DCT, all users are managed and access their data sets through a centralized server. This makes it easier for administrators to manage the Delphix Platform and ...
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The Benefits of Automating Data Pipelines | StoneX

By Michael Torok posted 05-24-2023
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StoneX is an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, traders, and investors to the global markets ecosystem through a unique blend of digital platforms, end-to-end clearing and execution services, high-touch service, and deep expertise. StoneX uses Delphix to automate data pipelines and maximize data security. Allowing developers to focus on innovation and delivering improvements rather than focusing on technical debt.
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