Production Data Risk: The Silent Multiplier

93% of organizations provide development and test teams with production data — either full database backups or production subsets. Yet only 54% report protecting sensitive development and test data through masking, de-identification, or synthetic data replacement.

And the risk doesn’t stop with a single copy. 45% of organizations maintain three or more non-production copies of each production dataset, distributing sensitive information across development, testing, staging, analytics, AI, and other lower environments. Every additional copy creates another location to secure, govern, monitor, and ultimately remove — steadily expanding the enterprise attack surface.

That’s the silent multiplier behind production data risk.

Our latest GenRocket article, “Production Data Risk: The Silent Multiplier Threatening Enterprise Software, Security, and AI,” examines why securing the production system itself is no longer enough — particularly as sensitive information spreads across both structured databases and unstructured documents and files.

It also introduces a broader strategy for addressing the problem: Enterprise Data Provisioning, with a practical roadmap to Protect sensitive production data, Expand the use of deterministic synthetic data, and Scale secure data provisioning across the enterprise.

Read the full article and discover how to reduce risk, improve data quality, and move toward the Synthetic Enterprise™.