Tag: Tokenization
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When Data Security Becomes a Strategic Advantage
Originally presented at Gartner Data and Analytics 2025 in London At Protegrity, we focus on securing the most important asset of all, the data itself. As a Solution Architect, I have the unique privilege of working with leading finance and retail organizations in EMEA. I get to see what kinds of data architectures they’re building, how they are automating…
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DATA TOKENIZATION EXPLAINED: 5 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF TOKENIZATION
WHAT IS DATA TOKENIZATION? Data tokenization protects sensitive data by substituting it with a randomly generated surrogate value known as a token. There are two types of data tokenization: vault and vaultless. Vault data tokenization stores information about tokenized data in a database, while vaultless generates tokens with algorithms to prevent easy access. Learn more…
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HOW ENTERPRISE EFFICIENCY & CYBERSECURITY GO HAND-IN-HAND
Without cybersecurity, your organization is vulnerable on many fronts, making it a crucial part of your business operations. But let’s be honest. Everyone knows that cybersecurity can be a cost center and can slow down business processes. That’s why it is important to select and implement data security solutions. These solutions should not only protect…
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4 THINGS FINANCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DATA PROTECTION
WHY FINANCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS NEED STRONG DATA PROTECTION Cyber threats are becoming increasingly complex – and significantly more costly – for financial service organizations. According to a 2021 report, in just the first six months of 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified $590 million in ransomware-related suspicious activity reports. This marked a 42% increase…
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TOKENIZATION VS. ENCRYPTION: HOW DATA PROTECTION METHODS WORK FOR YOU
Data security is a fundamental requirement for today’s businesses, and organizations have a plethora of choices when it comes to the types of methods and technologies they can employ to protect sensitive information. Oftentimes, the right data protection method—or combination of methods—is dependent on the type of data and use case in question. Two of…
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WHY DATA PROTECTION PLATFORMS ARE ESSENTIAL TO DATA LOSS PREVENTION
Organizations collect volumes of data, some of which are valuable as intellectual property, and some of which contain sensitive information from their customers or business partners. Organizations have both a motive and a responsibility to always protect that data, whether it is in storage, in transit, or in use. However, protecting data as it rests…
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BUILDING A SECURE INTERNAL DATA MARKETPLACE WITH PROTEGRITY AND AWS
Building a Secure Internal Data Marketplace with Protegrity and AWS As businesses increasingly look to make data part of their decision making process, many face issues when it comes to the quality, reliability, and privacy of that data. In the modern enterprise tech stack, data is often siloed and stored across a range of applications.…
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UNICODE: NAME A LANGUAGE, AND WE’LL PROTECT THE DATA
Data is international currency. No matter the language, kinetic data empowers businesses around the world to develop products and services, and to answer customers’ needs. While data is indeed valuable in many ways, it must be made worthless in the hands of cybercriminals. That means data protection should also be universal. No matter the language,…
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HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION WILL TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE OF AI
Today’s analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms present enormous opportunities for organizations. It’s possible to gain a level of insight that was once unimaginable. But somewhere along the path to unlocking the maximum value from data lies an inconvenient truth: Protecting trade secrets and personally identifiable information (PII) is difficult. Tokenization, data masking and anonymization,…