Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) — Question 295

What strategy involves hiding data in a data set to prevent someone from identifying specific individuals based on other data fields present?

Answer options

• A. Anonymization
• B. Tokenization
• C. Masking
• D. Obfuscation

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Anonymization is the correct answer because it specifically aims to make data unidentifiable to protect individual privacy. Tokenization and masking, while they also protect data, do not fundamentally focus on the complete removal of identifiable information like anonymization does. Obfuscation generally refers to making information unclear or unintelligible, rather than removing identifiers.