Best Practices in Data Tokenization

Originally published by Titaniam. Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive data with unique identifiers (tokens) that do not inherently have any meaning. Doing this helps secure the original underlying data against unauthorized access or usage.Tokenization was invented in 2001 to secure payment card data and quickly became the dominant methodology for strong security for payment card information. That success, both in terms of market adoption as well as strength of security, prompte…