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Siemens and Acutest have combined forces to present a one day management briefing on Application development. It covers the management of the software application development process and will enable the delegates to ensure their organisations implement effective and appropriate management controls.

The development of application software to meet end user expectations, time and budget is complex and difficult to achieve. There are many reasons why application development projects seem to fail:

* Incorrectly defined functional specifications
* The relevant regulation and legislation is not understood and defined
* Projects and suppliers are not tightly managed
* Limited ability of the organisation to assess the solution against functional specification
* The application availability (load, performance, security, resilience and disaster recovery) is considered only at the later stages of the project affecting budget.

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From IT Week:

Almost half of IT departments are failing to comply with the Data Protection Act (DPA) because they use live customer data to test applications without customers’ permission, according to research published today.
A survey of 100 senior IT decision makers by IT management software vendor Compuware found 44 percent were guilty of this practice, putting them at risk of prosecution under the DPA. Forty-eight percent said they were only “vaguely familiar” with this law.Ian Clarke, global sales director for enterprise solutions at Compuware, said that using live customer data for testing in this way is not only illegal but also increases the risk of security breaches. “Testing environments tend to be insecure, with data often printed out and moved around,” he said. “The fines for breaching the DPA may be relatively small but the real risk is the damage to reputation following data breaches.”
The survey also indicates that firms that send application testing offshore are not doing enough to protect customer data. Eighty-three percent said the only step they took to secure data when outsourcing it to third parties was to set up non-disclosure agreements.
Clarke said companies should employ software testing tools that automatically replace live customer data with dummy data to reduce the risk of security breaches and ensure compliance with the DPA.

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