CAIQ v4 Control CEK-07 Extractive Review Standard

How to answer 'How is sensitive customer PII or financial data tokenized or masked?' on a CAIQ

Reviewer Guidance & Pitfalls

State if cardholder data is completely offloaded to PCI-DSS Level 1 processors (e.g. Stripe) and if internal PII is pseudonymized or masked in database logs.

Example Answer Passing Enterprise Audit

Compliant Response Template
All payment information is tokenized and processed directly via our PCI-DSS Level 1 payment partner [Stripe]; no raw credit card details ever enter or touch our production servers (SOC 2, CC6.1).

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