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by cendyne 954 days ago
"We need a test environment!" "We don't have the budget for it."

Months later, a student developer runs a delete query in production with the where clause commented out. Oops, an entire table got wiped. Well at least there are backups... except a background job noticed and quickly created 4 years of invoices and emailed every past customer to pay again.

A test environment arrived soon after.

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Many organisations take a similar approach to the problem of cybersecurity.