Testing and Swiss Banking Secrecy...

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Thursday, 10 September 2009 04:22

Business IT - Security

Robin Heizmann is the Head of IT in France for Credit Suisse and as the Keynote Presenter at this year’s Software and Systems Quality Conference he will talk about the challenges of software development and testing when working within the unique legislation that make up the Swiss Banking Secrecy laws.

In 2006 Credit Suisse Private Bank IT decided to build new secure data centres for offshore/global SW development and testing (that are detached from existing CS data centres and intranet) through program SYNONYM. In order to enable global SW development and testing that is compliant with national legislation (Swiss Banking Secrecy), program SYNONYM established a highly secure development zone and introduced purely synthetic test data, based on the so called "Virtual Bank" concept for simulation of real bank business.

The presentation entitled SYNONYM – Building Secure Global Test Environments with a Synthetic Business Simulation highlights:

motivation and handling of legal requirements for this initiative today's solution and procedure to get there aspects of the "Virtual Bank" with synthetic data generation challenges for both the SYNONYM program team and the SW development and testing community plans for future enhancements towards virtualized multi-environment-, next-generation SW-Engineering

Robin will be presenting along with other international and domestic experts at this year’s Software and Systems Quality Conference to be held at the Hilton on the Park in Melbourne on 27 – 28 October. For more information on the conference click here http://www.sqs-conferences.com/au/index.htm

Biography
Robin Heizmann is Country IT Head France & Monaco for Credit Suisse in Paris, France. Formerly a Director at Credit Suisse IT Private Banking in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2006 until 2009 he was responsible line- and program manager for program SYNONYM. Before 2006 Robin was responsible programme/project manager for establishing the organizational and procedural structures for Credit Suisse PB IT SW testing and for the overall SW test data anonymization initiative. Among other responsibilities, he was also head of the expert team testing, member of the expert team quality, member of the SOX implementation team, CS internal quality assessor and head of the legal data working group. Robin is Business IT Specialist and PMP and has presented various aspects of Credit Suisse SW testing strategy and implementation at several international conferences (incl. SQC).