Amid this year’s huge push for cybersecurity, everyone thinks they have the next big thing to protect companies, governments and the people they serve.
One of the news tools in the toolkit is synthetic data, a new way to help with testing and citizen privacy. Loosely, synthetic data — which has many definitions and uses — is a method for data measurement where artificial intelligence and other technologies develop model data closely resembling real data to maintain privacy among citizens. But we’ll get into all that in a bit.
So, what exactly is synthetic data? How can it be used to keep our information safe? Thomas George, a senior systems engineer at Silver Spring, Maryland integration and testing firm Vidoori, broke it down for us:
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