Businesses that offer services to large numbers of people often have access to large amounts of sensitive information. For example, many businesses perform thousands or millions of credit card transactions each year. Credit card information is just one example of sensitive information that many companies handle as part of providing a service. Often times, large amounts of data must be stored and accessed quickly as part of providing services involving sensitive information.
Currently existing methods for storing and accessing large amounts of sensitive information have disadvantages. Typically, when the information includes millions of records, the information is stored by a unique number, for example by consecutively numbered records This allows for easy storage, but accessing the information at a later date can be time consuming when there are large numbers of records, for example in the millions.
It is important for businesses to be able to quickly store and access any record of a large amount of records including sensitive information such as credit card information.