---
id: 4187
title: "Contain Your Toxic Waste: Keep Prod Out of Dev"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/keep-production-out-of-development"
published_at: "2019-08-29T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["appsec", "devops", "data-protection", "pii", "environment-separation"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4187"
lang: en
---

# Contain Your Toxic Waste: Keep Prod Out of Dev

## Summary

Tony Lozano describes finding production data — SSNs, PII, credentials — in dev and staging environments, and argues for realistic fake datasets instead.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/keep-production-out-of-development
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4187