I do enjoy this perspective from someone who says "I have no access to production data". Typically that is used as an excuse to not practice any security whatsoever, rather than as a side-note on a security heads-up!
I go back and forth on this all the time - easier access to production means faster development, but requires more discipline. Being able to reproduce production issues without production data takes a lot of engineering - which can be hard to justify when you're a tiny shop - when I was DevOps for 100 engineers it was certainly a much simpler time justification...
I go back and forth on this all the time - easier access to production means faster development, but requires more discipline. Being able to reproduce production issues without production data takes a lot of engineering - which can be hard to justify when you're a tiny shop - when I was DevOps for 100 engineers it was certainly a much simpler time justification...