SC 007: What is Tokenization?

Published: March 21, 2014, 3:42 p.m.

What is tokenization? 

How does tokenization compare to encryption and format preserving encryption?

Are there performance issues regarding its use?

Is it standardized so one solution can exchange tokens with a different implementation?

Vic Wheatman talks to Voltage CTO Terrence Spies who urges enterprises to look at their infrastructures, take inventories of what pieces of data they are storing and what could be breached, and then catalogue them as they are the potential candidates for tokenization.