A software company needs to provide realistic customer data to developers for testing a new billing feature. The production database contains personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, email addresses, and credit card numbers. The developers do not need the real values, but the data must remain realistic for testing. Which approach best meets the requirement while minimizing privacy risk?

Encrypt the production database and provide the decryption key to the developers

Delete all customer records and generate random test data from scratch

Copy the production database to the test environment and restrict access to the development team

Use data masking to replace sensitive fields with realistic but fictitious values in the test environment

What is the primary goal of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies?

To detect and block unauthorized attempts to transmit sensitive data outside the organization

To classify data based on its sensitivity

To prevent unauthorized access to data by encrypting it

To ensure that data is backed up regularly

What is the primary purpose of data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA?

To require all data to be stored on-premises

To give individuals control over their personal data and ensure organizations handle it responsibly

To allow organizations to freely share personal data across borders

To ensure that all personal data is encrypted

What is the recommended method for securely disposing of data that is no longer needed?

Renaming the files to obscure names

Deleting files and emptying the recycle bin

Overwriting the storage media with random data or physically destroying the media

Moving the data to a different folder

A multinational company collects personal data from customers in the European Union. The company stores the data in a data center located in the EU. What is the primary compliance requirement the company must address?

Obtain consent from every customer before collecting any data.

Encrypt all data with a key length of at least 256 bits.

Store all data only on physical servers owned by the company.

Ensure that data transfers outside the EU are subject to appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.

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A software company needs to provide realistic customer data to developers for testing a new billing feature. The production database contains personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, email addresses, and credit card numbers. The developers do not need the real values, but the data must remain realistic for testing. Which approach best meets the requirement while minimizing privacy risk?
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