--- title: Perforce Survey Finds Non-Production Data Controls... description: A Perforce survey of 518 enterprise leaders reveals a significant gap between data security confidence and actual outcomes in non-production environments.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/perforce-survey-finds-non-production-data-controls-falling-short-e7n1gxqmb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Perforce Survey Finds Non-Production Data Controls Falling Short | daily.dev og:description: A Perforce survey of 518 enterprise leaders reveals a significant gap between data security confidence and actual outcomes in non-production environments.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/perforce-survey-finds-non-production-data-controls-falling-short-e7n1gxqmb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/e7N1GXQMB.png og:image:alt: Perforce Survey Finds Non-Production Data Controls Falling Short og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Perforce Survey Finds Non-Production Data Controls Falling Short **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Perforce survey of 518 enterprise leaders reveals a significant gap between data security confidence and actual outcomes in non-production environments. While 99% of organizations have data masking policies, 84% allow exceptions, and despite 98% expressing confidence in their protections, 43% reported audit failures and 34% reported breaches involving non-production data. Key risks include manual sensitive data discovery, schema changes creating blind spots, and shadow data bypassing compliance workflows. Organizations are combining static masking (86%), dynamic masking (60%), and synthetic data (51%) to address these gaps, but the volume of sensitive data in non-production systems grew for 57% of respondents last year, increasing pressure on existing controls. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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