Implementing tokenization is much more about understanding how your organization interacts with payments than it is simply rolling out a device that will tokenize payment card data. Many tokenization solutions in the market today are a “silver bullet” and can remove your environment from PCI scope. Beware though, most solutions address only one piece of the tokenization puzzle.Read more

Alex Pezold

Alex is the Director of Business Development at True. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifications for Designated Approving Authority and Information Security System Professional. Alex has a Masters of Science in Computer Science, with an Information Security emphasis, and has participated in the Federal Service Cyber Corps Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense.

Don’t be fooled. Implementing tokenization may not be as easy as they say. In fact, depending on your environment, implementing tokenization can be quite complex. For instance, if your company is a wholesaler and takes payments through multiple channels, implementing tokenization in all of those channels can be quite challenging.Read more

Alex Pezold

Alex is the Director of Business Development at True. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifications for Designated Approving Authority and Information Security System Professional. Alex has a Masters of Science in Computer Science, with an Information Security emphasis, and has participated in the Federal Service Cyber Corps Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense.

How do you know if Tokenization is the right data security solution for your environment? Depending on how sensitive data flows throughout your environment, integrating a tokenization solution may not be the right solution. For instance, tokenizing a very small environment does not make sense if point-to-point encryption can provide the necessary means for data protection. Conversely, tokenization can drastically reduce, if not eliminate, a majority of your environment from PCI Scope.Read more

Alex Pezold

Alex is the Director of Business Development at True. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifications for Designated Approving Authority and Information Security System Professional. Alex has a Masters of Science in Computer Science, with an Information Security emphasis, and has participated in the Federal Service Cyber Corps Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense.