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It’s not ‘See you later.’ It’s ‘Goodbye’: Moving on from Tokenization in the age of Ransomware

CyberSecurity Insiders

Tokenization was invented a little over twenty years ago in 2001 to address the risk of losing cardholder data from eCommerce platforms. In recent years, cyber attackers began to go after a wide variety of data beyond just payment cards. It does not matter that the victims have their backup and recovery systems in order.