Tokenization is the process of substituting sensitive data with replacement values that retain all the essential characteristics without compromising its security. Businesses are increasingly turning to tokenization to secure high risk data such as credit cards and social security numbers. Unfortunately obstacles such as performance drains, data availability, scalability, collisions and increased management demands are marring their experiences with this promising technology.

After two years of research and development, Protegrity has developed a solution by intelligently altering the traditional backend processes used in tokenization. This has resulted in a new patent-pending way to tokenize data which eliminates the challenges associated with standard centralized tokenization.

Particularly in high volume operations, the usual way of generating tokens is prone to issues that impact the availability and performance of the data. From a security standpoint, it is critical to address the issue of collisions caused when tokenization solutions assign the same token to two separate pieces of data.

Protegrity’s next generation tokenization solution addresses all of these issues elegantly and intuitively. System performance, availability and scaling are enhanced, numeric and alpha tokens are generated to protect a wide range of high-risk data, key management is greatly simplified, and collisions are eliminated.

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