Access Control

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a federal law designed to improve financial transparency and responsibility for U.S. public companies. It’s enactment in 2002 was prompted by several well-publicized accounting scandals established a number of standards for public companies to follow.

Digital Rights Management: a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of confidential information, proprietary hardware and copyrighted works, typically using encryption and key management.

Tokenization entails the substitution of sensitive data with a non-sensitive equivalent, known as a token. This token then maps back to the original sensitive data through a tokenization system that makes tokens practically impossible to reverse without them. Many such systems leverage random numbers to produce secure tokens. Tokenization is often used to secure financial records, bank accounts, medical records and many other forms of personally identifiable information (PII).