Question

A multinational financial services company stores customer account data in a cloud database hosted in the United States. New regulations in the European Union require that all personal data of EU citizens must be processed and stored within EU borders. The company needs to comply while maintaining operational efficiency. Which solution BEST addresses this data sovereignty requirement?

Accepted Answer

Implement geolocation-based data storage routing to store EU customer data in EU-region cloud data centers

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Enable AES-256 encryption for all customer data stored in the US data centers

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Apply data masking to EU customer records before storing them in the US database

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Use tokenization to replace EU customer sensitive data with non-sensitive equivalents