Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council issues guidelines on “tokenization” technologies. Tokenization can hide payment-card account information by concealing it behind a substitute “token” The “Token” could then be converted back to its original account information. The council says this technology can potentially help in making it easier for merchants or other processing payment card data to set up networks that must restrict access to sensitive information in order to comply with the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) rules. The report offers detail on how tokenization systems should be installed, configured and maintained in a PCI DSS compliant environment.”]