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Enhancing Data Security: How Exact Payments Protects Onboarding Data

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which includes security enhancements such as enforcing “forward secrecy” to prevent the compromise of encryption keys between the server and clients. This feature ensures that each session has unique encryption keys, which are not derived from a set of long-term keys. The encrypted data is then written to our database.

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What Is Data Tokenization and How Does It Work?

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Today, data is as important as currency and should be safeguarded as such. In 2022, there were 1802 instances of data compromise in America which affected 422 million people. Tokenization vs encryption Data encryption is another popular data security technique where data is transformed into an illegible format.

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How To Prevent Data Breaches: 15 Best Practices

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An incident is only considered a data breach if the confidentiality of data is compromised. Sensitive or confidential data can include customer data records, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, healthcare information, intellectual property, etc.

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Hacker Tracker: Yahoo In Hot Water, Selfie Security Risks, US Data Breaches Surge

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As if Yahoo didn’t have enough on its plate, the tech company is now facing a probe from the Securities and Exchange Commission as to whether or not it could have acted more promptly in response to two massive data breaches that left over a billion customers’ information compromised. 2013 had compromised even more user data.