How to answer 'How is sensitive customer PII or financial data tokenized or masked?' on a CAIQ
I. 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.
II. Example Answer Passing Enterprise Audit
Compliant Response
Sealed · CEK-07
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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