[themcgruff]

We treat all environments as production. However we add additional security to staging since it's the most experimental. (Additional security meaning it can only be accessed via VPN and after two factor authentication.)

To be very clear: Beta, production, rollout and staging environments are secure. They run all the same front end security provisions, same data center, same patches, etc. The difference is they run differing versions of the code base based on development.