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Project Description (Initial Public Draft)

Securing Non-Credit Card, Sensitive Consumer Data: Consumer Data Security for the Retail Sector

Date Published: May 9, 2016
Comments Due: June 3, 2016 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to: consumer-nccoe@nist.gov

Author(s)

William Newhouse (NIST), Sarah Weeks (MITRE)

Announcement

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has posted a draft Project Description on the topic of Securing Non-Credit Card, Sensitive Consumer Data.
 
Retailers easily gather sensitive data during typical business activities, such as date of birth, address, phone number, and email address, which can be used by various internal users and external partners to accelerate business operations and revenue. There has been an increase in the value of non-credit card, sensitive consumer data on the black market; however, there are relatively few regulations or standards specific to this topic in the consumer-facing/retail industry in the United States. As seen following high-profile data breaches in the healthcare sector, personally identifiable information (PII) is valued at up to 20 times more than credit card data, with a single credit card number sold at $1 and the average individual's PII sold at $20.
 
This project and its example solution will help secure non-credit card, sensitive consumer data through data masking and tokenization, coupled with fine-grained access control to improve the security of data transmitted and stored during commercial payment transactions, as well as data shared internally within a retail organization and externally with business partners.

Abstract

Keywords

tokenization; access control; ABAC; attribute based access control; PII; consumer data; retail; data masking; e-commerce
Control Families

Access Control; System and Communications Protection

Documentation

Publication:
Draft Project Description (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
None available

Document History:
05/09/16: Project Description (Draft)

Topics

Security and Privacy

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