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Tokenization Architectures for Protecting PII in Financial Data Pipelines
| Author(s) | Pavan Kumar Mantha, Rajesh Kotha |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Abstract | Financial institutions are increasingly reliant on sophisticated data pipelines to drive analytics, real-time decisioning, fraud detection, and digital services. These pipelines handle large volumes of PII data, which makes data protection a fundamental architectural concern. Traditional perimeter-based security approaches are inadequate for modern cloud-native deployments, streaming platforms, and distributed processing environments. Once sensitive data is ingested into a pipeline, it is often copied across layers of ingestion, curation, and analytics with an enormous increase in the attack surface, which raises the potential for exposure. This paper discusses tokenization, a practical and scalable methodology for protecting PII in financial data pipelines while retaining data utility. It reviews the architectural differences between tokenization and encryption along with related trade-offs in terms of reversibility, performance, and operational complexity. The study analyzes various tokenization patterns-which include vault-based, stateless, and hybrid models-and discusses optimal placement strategies relative to batch and stream-based workflows. In addition, the paper discusses access control, detokenization policies, governance, auditability, and performance considerations. Using representative financial use cases like analytics, fraud detection, and AI/ML feature pipelines, the paper illustrates how tokenization can be used to balance strong privacy guarantees against the demand for secure, real-time, and scalable data processing. |
| Keywords | Tokenization, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Financial Data Pipelines, Data Privacy, Secure Analytics, Streaming Architectures, Data Governance, Access Control, Cloud-Native Security, Data Protection Architecture. |
| Field | Engineering |
| Published In | Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2022 |
| Published On | 2022-06-03 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.70528/IJLRP.v3.i6.1991 |
| Short DOI | https://doi.org/hbtqj3 |
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