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Enterprise App Developers Use Insecure Data

Credit card numbers, customer information, and even employee records are inadequately protected in development environments, according to a new report.

A majority of IT practitioners feel their company lacks adequate policies, procedures, and security techniques in managing threats to data in development environments.

That's according to a study of IT pros conducted and released today by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Micro Focus.

The results of the survey are no surprise, Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, told InternetNews.com .

"Over decades in security research, I have seen the real effort put into the production environment, not development and testing," he said. "But wherever the criminal or a company's competitor gets the data, it's still a real problem."

Part of the problem stems from the fact that real data is being used in development environments, and lots of it, according to the survey. Respondents said that the most common types of data used are, in order, customer records, employee data, and credit card numbers.

"That's surprising," Ponemon said. "There are ...

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