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Thu, 21 Feb 2008
171,324 Irish blood donor records stolen
There has been plenty of coverage of this data loss, but most have focused on the claims of strong encryption.
Only a few professionals have asked why data to be used for software testing was not anonymised.
Daragh O'Brien of the IAIDQ comments on his blog:
http://obriend.info/2008/02/21/more-thoughts-on-the-ibts-data-breach/
"Your unencrypted, non-anonymised data could have been on the laptop when it was stolen."
How timely: http://www.issaireland.org/meetings Irish Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association Next meeting will be held on Friday Feburary 22nd and all are welcome to attend: Security Breach Reporting and Impact February 22nd, Ballsbridge Court (formerly the Berkeley Court), 12 noon
Software & Systems Quality Conferences Dublin, 5th March 2008
http://www.sqs-conferences.com/ire/program/programme.htm
9.00 - 9.45 Conference opening by: Tom Kitt TD Government Chief Whip and Information Society Minister
9.45 - 10.30 KEYNOTE The Quality Ecosystem Colm Butler Department of AnTaoiseach, Information Policy Unit
11.15 - 12.00 Testing During The Development Phase Using OpenSource Tools Richard Thompson Liberty IT
The Quality Challenge for joined up Government - A Criminal Justice Case Study Mary Scullion Northern Ireland Civil Service
Performance Testing - From Best Efforts to Best Practice Patricia Costelloe AIB
From The Trenches: A Microsoft Testing Perspective Martha Rotter Microsoft Share DSI's Experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition Peter Buckley DeCare Systems Ireland
12.00 - 12.45 Panel Discussion "Software Testers: Perceptions and Professionalism" Mary Cleary Irish Computer Society iCS
Test-Driven Development: Ensuring Quality From a Developer Perspective Jedidja Bourgeois Microsoft
Performance Stress Testing: Activity Profiling Fergal Downey/ Emer McVeigh HBOS
An intensive case study of test offshoring Paul Cronin SQS
12.45 - 1.45 LUNCH
Automation strategies for different lifecycle approaches Ken Brennock Insight
The Practitioner's View of Test Automation Jiri Machala QASight/Moravia IT
1.45 - 2.30 KEYNOTE Formula One is a Sport which Revolves around Testing and Quality Mark Gallagher Eddie Jordan's Formula One Team
2.30 - 3.00 COFFEE BREAK
The Application Performance Lifecycle Elma Cusack Hewlett-Packard
3.00 - 3.45 Testing in a Service Oriented Architecture Dave Rigler SQS
Making Sure Information Quality Matches Software Quality Daragh O'Brien International Association for Information & Data Quality (IAIDQ)
End-User Computing: Risks in Spreadsheets Patrick O'Beirne SoftTest Ireland
(repeats) From The Trenches: Share DSI's Experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition
3.45 - 4.30 The Truth about Outsourcing Looking Forward to Outsourcing 2.0 Arpit Kaushik Crystals Design Limited
Green Testing: The Race Against Waste Joan Jordan o2
Virtualisation of Test Environments Mark Scully/ Sean O'Sullivan Irish Stock Exchange
Caught In The Middle Testing - the 'No Mans Land' between Systems Test and UAT on Vendor-supplied software Adrienne Reddan Delphi Technologies
4.30 - 5.15 Successful Fusion of Tailored Process Improvement and Capability Building Oliver Lawrence British Energy
Running a centralised Performance testing service in an Ecommerce World Peter Pinto Friends Provident
SQuaRE standard Michael O'Duffy The Centre for Software Engineering
Requirements-Driven Testing: The Clear Solution for Improving Application Quality Fergal McGovern Compuware