Today
Every system that stores or touches a card number falls inside PCI scope: the database, the logs, the support tools, the analytics. Each one adds audits and risk.
With Data Vault & Tokenization
Card numbers go straight to the Vault over a sealed channel and come back as format-preserving tokens your systems store instead. When a payment needs the real number, detokenizing is checked against policy for that caller and purpose, inside the enclave, and receipted.
What you get
- Card numbers never touch your servers
- A smaller PCI scope
- A receipt for every detokenize