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2 questions in Tokenisation & Masking.

  1. Tokenisation & Masking intermediate Multiple choice

    A marketplace must stop storing raw phone numbers in its analytical estate. Analysts still need to join orders to support tickets by the same customer, and the company must be able to delete an individual's data on request. Which approach fits?

    2 min answer tokenisationhashingerasurejoinability
  2. Tokenisation & Masking intermediate

    Customer phone numbers are replaced with vault-issued tokens at ingest, and the four services allowed to see raw values call the vault to detokenise on demand. The vault becomes slow rather than down - p99 goes from 8 ms to 4 seconds - for three hours during the evening peak. What happens across the estate, and what stops it?

    3 min answer tokenisationvaultavailability-couplingtimeouts
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