SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR FORMAT PRESERVING TOKENIZATION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Systems and methods for secure access and utilization of sensitive data such as credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, personal identifying information, etc. A tokenizing strategy component provides for creating, managing, and storing tokenization strategies on behalf of a plurality of users. A data tokenizing component is operative to (a) receive an input data string of sensitive data from a user, (b) apply a selected tokenization strategy to the input data string to generate a tokenized data string, and (c) provide the tokenized data string for storage in association with the input data string. A secure server including a secure database stores the tokenized data string and the input data string in a corresponding mapped relationship. A security component controls access to and retrieval of the tokenized data string and to the input data string in accordance with predetermined security requirements of the users.