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Data Breaches 101: What They Are And How To Prevent Them

VISTA InfoSec

Virtually every industry faces data breach risks today as sensitive information gets digitized and networked across cloud platforms. But some data types see higher breach rates than others.

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Enhancing Data Security: How Exact Payments Protects Onboarding Data

Exact Payments

The layer of defense WAFs provide is crucial in maintaining the integrity and security of the data pipeline. Data Encryption and Management Sensitive pieces of PII are encrypted with unique keys as soon as our APIs index them. The encrypted data is then written to our database.

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What Is Data Tokenization and How Does It Work?

Stax

Tokenization vs encryption Data encryption is another popular data security technique where data is transformed into an illegible format. In contrast, tokenization does not depend on keys or encryption algorithms, as random data is mapped to and replaces sensitive data.