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.