Webinar: Promises and Perils of Tokenization

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Crooks and compliance are really putting the squeeze on retailers and anyone else that processes credit card transactions. This is so because not only does credit card theft continue to grow, but with it so is pressure from regulators to protect personal information. Tokenization is an approach to cardholder data protection that helps alleviate both pressures by improving security and reducing compliance scope.

Tokenization replaces something of value (like a credit card number) with something that is value-less (a random string of numbers). Though just one component of a broader cardholder data security strategy, the technology can help companies both reduce risk and lower compliance expense, thereby generating substantial ROI.

Earlier today, my colleague Nick Holland and I hosted a webinar in which we explored tokenization as a security solution and examined its promise as a managed service. Check out the replay below.

The webinar runs about an hour:

• Download audio (mp3)
• Download slides (pdf)