A financial technology enterprise is integrating a third-party analytical platform to evaluate customer payment trends. Legal and privacy compliance requirements state that Primary Account Numbers (PANs) transmitted to the external vendor must be replaced with random surrogate values that maintain no mathematical relationship to the underlying data. Additionally, internal billing microservices must maintain the ability to resolve these surrogate values back to the original PANs using an isolated, highly secure lookup database hosted on-premises. Which of the following privacy-enhancing controls best fulfills these requirements?
- Tokenization using a centralized token vaultCevap
- BDynamic data masking applied at the database view level
- CIrreversible data anonymization using one-way cryptographic hashing
- DDesignating the third-party analytics provider as the data owner responsible for privacy enforcement
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Tokenization using a centralized token vault is the correct privacy-enhancing control.
Tokenization generates random, non-mathematical surrogate characters (tokens) to replace sensitive data like PANs before exporting to third parties. Because the token cannot be derived mathematically from the original value, compromising the external analytics platform does not expose the underlying data. The enterprise retains the mapping in an isolated on-premises token vault, allowing internal microservices to securely re-identify accounts when required.
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