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- Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data about an individual that could, potentially identify that person, such as a name, fingerprints or other biometric data, email address, street address, telephone number or social security number. A subset of PII is PIFI (personally identifiable financial information).

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Security benefits of virtual desktop infrastructures: Learn the security benefits of virtualized desktops and virtual workspace projects, including malware-resistant software configurations and enhanced data loss prevention.
Winning the war: Personal information protection: With so many records containing personal information lost in data breaches, we have lost the battle to protect PII, argues George Tubin of TowerGroup.
Tokenization and PCI compliance: A relatively new technology promises to ease the burden of protecting sensitive data. Ed Moyle explains how tokenization works and how it can help with PCI compliance.
Partner data privacy: Issuing stricter guidelines: In this tip, Dick Mackey explains how financial firms are facing pressure from partners about data privacy and what they can do about it.
Pushing past the perplexity in protecting PIFI: This tip explores three areas of confusion surrounding PIFI protection and how to solve them.

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