TOKENIZATION & DETOKENIZATION
Data protection and PCI scope reduction for today’s businesses
TOKENIZATION & DETOKENIZATION
Tokenization, in the world of credit card security, is the process of substituting the secure card details with a non secure identifier (or token). PCI Shield replaces all card details with a single token to allow you to store the full and complete card details securely. The PCI Shield tokens are not reversible – meaning that they are meaningless to anyone but yourselves when used with the PCI Shield system.
Detokenization is the reverse process where a token is replaced with the full card details extracted from our vault.
Our tokenization and detokenization services intercept the message either before it arrives to your system or immediately after it leaves your system to parse the message and extract or insert the card details.
Tokenization and detokenization can be split into the following workflows:
Outbound requests
An outbound request is when you send a request to your partner to retrieve credit card details (that need to be tokenized) or when you send a request containing credit card details (that need to be detokenized) to your partner.
Inbound requests
An inbound request is when your partner sends you a request with credit card details (that need to be tokenized) or when your partner retrieves credit card details (that need to be detokenized) from you.
Interfaces
Human interfaces that allow you collect the card details (that need to be tokenized) from the card owner or display the card details (that need to be detokenized) to your partner.
PCI Shield has tools, features and services to address any and all of these different workflows and support your unique needs.