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What to Know About Tokenization

Basis Theory

Today, we can tokenize anything from credit card primary account numbers (PAN) to one-time debit card transactions or social security numbers. As a merchant, to understand tokenization for your own benefit, it’s critical to understand: What tokenization is, why it’s important for payments, and how it compares to encryption.

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Data Breaches 101: What They Are And How To Prevent Them

VISTA InfoSec

Virtually every industry faces data breach risks today as sensitive information gets digitized and networked across cloud platforms. But some data types see higher breach rates than others.

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What Is Data Tokenization and How Does It Work?

Stax

Tokenization vs encryption Data encryption is another popular data security technique where data is transformed into an illegible format. In contrast, tokenization does not depend on keys or encryption algorithms, as random data is mapped to and replaces sensitive data.

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Enhancing Data Security: How Exact Payments Protects Onboarding Data

Exact Payments

The layer of defense WAFs provide is crucial in maintaining the integrity and security of the data pipeline. Data Encryption and Management Sensitive pieces of PII are encrypted with unique keys as soon as our APIs index them. The encrypted data is then written to our database.

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What Data Masking is and Why Mask Data

Basis Theory

For example, while using format-preserving encryption to mask a social security number adds a significant level of security, an organization may not pursue it due to layers of complexity and cost to the application required to decrypt it. Well get into encryption a bit more, later).