If you last updated your IT security standards five or more years ago, chances are they don’t line up well with the realities of today’s DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices. One particularly sticky topic is testing in production—and, thus, testing with production data—because DevOps and SRE blur the line between what is production and what is not; what is a test and what is not.
To clear up some of the confusion, we’ll dig into these questions:
Source:
https://opensource.com/article/19/5/dont-test-production