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tokenization

/ˌtoʊkənaɪˈzeɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A reversible privacy control whose entire safety rests on a vault that three integrations have read access to 'temporarily.'Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Substituting a sensitive value with a non-sensitive token, with the mapping held in a separately controlled vault.

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See also

access controlsA least-privilege model in which forty-one people have privilege, because requesting removal is harder than requesting access.
anonymizationA claim made about a dataset roughly until the first person re-identifies someone in it for a conference talk.
data maskingThe careful obscuring of the production data, in the one environment, that a different team had already copied somewhere else.
encryption at restThe control most cited in the questionnaire and least relevant to the breach, which came in through a login.