Sunday, October 04, 2015

Tokenization : Creating Secure Test Data

PCI DSS Section 6.4.3 requires that "Production Data (live PANs) are NOT used for Testing or Development".

If we need a Huge Dataset of real looking PANs for a Test. How do we create those?

A good Tokenization will allow you to do "BATCH COPY" where you start with PAN Data and end up with Tokens.

Doing this in production once is a fast and secure way to create test data: when configured properly, the tokens can look like "REAL" PANs and can even pass Luhn check.

Thus creating a huge set of Test data which is NOT tied to real PAN data at all becomes easy exercise.


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