ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
During user acceptance testing, the QA team needs a copy of production data so they can validate complex joins across several relational tables. Security policy forbids disclosure of any personally identifiable information (PII) in non-production environments. Which technique offers the best balance of protecting PII and preserving the referential integrity needed for the test cases?
Encrypt the entire record with a format-preserving cipher and ship the key to testers
Replace each PII field with a consistent token that maps back to the original value in a secure vault
Apply random data masking independently on every table before loading it into test
Provide only aggregated statistical summaries instead of record-level data
Tokenization substitutes sensitive values with consistently mapped tokens stored in a secure vault. Because the same original value always yields the same token, foreign-key relationships remain intact across tables, allowing testers to exercise end-to-end workflows without exposing real PII. Random data masking and aggregation break or omit relational links, and format-preserving encryption can complicate joins and require shared keys in the test environment, increasing risk.
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