Cybersecurity Infographic Series · Banking, Payments and Financial Regulation

Card Network Tokenization

A network token looks like a real card number to existing payment infrastructure, but it maps back to the actual PAN only inside the card network's own vault. Domain restriction and a fresh cryptogram per transaction are what make a stolen token nearly worthless outside the exact context it was issued for.

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