FOR CTOS PAYING DOWN PII TECH DEBT

Your User Data Lives in 12 Systems. Nobody Knows Where.

Map every PII field in your codebase in a weekend with Claude or Cursor. Land it all in Databunker Pro — with our architects on call. Get back one clear answer to "where is our user data?" — for your next audit, DSAR, and security review.

Already protecting 20M+ records in production. Self-hosted or cloud.

No deck. No sales pitch. A Databunker engineer maps where your PII lives and gives you a migration plan in 20 minutes.

# Ask Claude or Cursor:
"Find every PII field. Plan the migration to Databunker."

→ 47 PII fields found across 9 services:
   users.email          src/auth/signup.js:42
   orders.shipping      jobs/import.py:118
   logs.payload.phone   worker/process.ts:73
   ...

# Then land each in Databunker:
curl -X POST /v2/UserCreate -H "X-Bunker-Token: $TOKEN" \
    -d '{"profile":{"email":"al@x.com","card":"4532..."}}'
{ "status": "ok", "token": "a21fa1d3-..." }

Self-host with Docker Compose, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.

What Data Sprawl Actually Costs You

It's not the headline breach number. It's the audit you can't pass, the engineer you can't onboard, and the deal you can't close — because nobody has a complete map of where user data actually lives.

Nobody can answer "where is this user's data?"

A regulator opens an enquiry. A user files a DSAR. An auditor asks for evidence. Each request becomes a week of Slack archaeology across N databases, M SaaS tools, and the engineer who left last year.

10 Cognito pools. 3 user tables. None of them talk.

Years of organic growth left identity scattered across pools, legacy tables, and acquisitions. AWS gives you no merge tool. Your team gets to build one — instead of shipping features.

The debt compounds every quarter

Every new microservice, every new SaaS integration, every new region adds another place PII can leak. The next breach drill won't ask whether you have sprawl — it'll show you exactly how much.

THE PII CONSOLIDATION SPRINT

Four Weeks. One Vault. Senior Engineers Alongside Yours.

A time-boxed sprint that pairs Databunker Pro with 40 hours of senior engineering — so the migration is a delivered outcome, not a software install.

The software

Databunker Pro

  • ✓ Encrypted PII vault with tokenization
  • ✓ CRBAC, masking policies, fuzzy search
  • ✓ Record versioning & audit trail
  • ✓ Multi-tenancy, key rotation, BYOK
  • ✓ DPO portal & group management
  • ✓ Self-hosted or managed cloud

40 hours of senior engineering

The Sprint

  • Week 1 — Discovery & migration plan. We run Claude or Cursor across your codebase with your team, produce the complete PII inventory, and hand you a rollout sequenced by risk — with code samples for your SDK and gateway pattern.
  • Weeks 2–3 — Integration office hours. Your engineers integrate; ours review every PR. Daily Slack, weekly architecture call.
  • Week 4 — Gap analysis & cutover. Final review against the original inventory. Audit-ready evidence package, ready to hand to a QSA or SOC 2 firm.
4 weeks
From kickoff to one-vault production
40 hours
Senior engineers, on call with you
Flat scope
Same price whether you have 1M records or 100M
Book a 20-min architecture review →

We’ll scope the sprint to your stack and tell you whether 40 hours is enough — or if your sprawl needs more.

What Changes Once the Migration Is Done

Once your codebase points at Databunker instead of twelve scattered systems, the parts of your job that used to be impossible become routine.

You answer “where is this user’s data?” in seconds

Every DSAR, every audit, every regulator query becomes a single API call. The week of Slack archaeology stops.

A breach exposes tokens, not customers

If attackers compromise your application database, they get UUIDs. No PII in logs, no PII in backups, no PII in error messages — nothing worth stealing.

Enterprise deals stop stalling on data questions

When the prospect’s security questionnaire asks where the data lives, you have one answer. Data residency, vendor reviews, DSARs — answered by your architecture, not by your sales engineer.

The next service points at one vault, not twelve

Every new microservice, every new SaaS integration, every new region points at the same vault. The sprawl stops compounding.

Your User Table, Before and After

The whole migration, in 30 seconds of SQL. Same primary keys, same joins, same indexes — just no PII anywhere except the vault.

Old-Style Solution

Traditional databases store PII directly in tables, making data vulnerable to exposure through logs, backups, and SQL injection attacks—even with RDS encryption enabled.

Example Database Schema:
CREATE TABLE users (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    email VARCHAR(255),           -- Exposed in logs, backups, queries
    first_name VARCHAR(100),      -- Visible to all database users
    last_name VARCHAR(100),       -- Accessible via SQL injection
    phone VARCHAR(20),            -- Stored in application logs
    ssn VARCHAR(11),              -- High-risk data exposure
    created_at TIMESTAMP
);

Problems with storing PII directly:

  • Data exposure in logs, backups, and error messages
  • SQL injection vulnerabilities expose sensitive data
  • Database admin access reveals all personal information
  • Compliance complexity requires extensive additional controls
  • Breach impact exposes all stored PII immediately

Databunker Pro Solution

Databunker Pro is a secure user table replacement and vault that encrypts sensitive data (PII, payment info, KYC) and swaps it in your database with safe random tokens.

Secure Database Schema:
CREATE TABLE users (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    user_token UUID              -- Safe to store anywhere
);

All user-sensitive records are encrypted and securely stored in Databunker’s internal PII vault, featuring fuzzy search, record versioning, encryption key rotation, and multi-tenancy. Fast and secure record lookup is enabled through hash-based search indexes.

Benefits of secure tokenization:

  • Zero PII exposure in application databases, logs, or backups
  • Breach protection - attackers only see meaningless tokens
  • Built-in compliance with privacy regulations
  • Simplified architecture - no complex encryption management
  • Audit-ready with comprehensive access logging

Remove PII from your system — compliance becomes trivial

Book a 20-min architecture review →

Or try the live demo first →

Run Databunker Pro Locally

Self-hosted, open-source-friendly, no signup. Four commands and you have a tokenization API on localhost:3000 🔗.

1. Install with Docker Compose

git clone https://github.com/securitybunker/databunkerpro-setup.git
cd databunkerpro-setup/docker-compose-pgsql
./generate-env-files.sh
docker compose up -d

Then open http://localhost:3000 — the web UI walks you through generating your root token, wrapping key, and Shamir shares.

Read the full quickstart →   Generate admin credentials →

2. Make your first API call

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/v2/UserCreate \
  -H "X-Bunker-Token: $ROOT_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"profile":{"email":"alice@example.com","card":"4532015112830366"}}'

PII goes in. A safe UUID token comes back. Store the token in your application database — never the raw record.

Prefer Kubernetes? Helm chart →
helm repo add databunkerpro https://securitybunker.github.io/databunkerpro-setup
helm repo update
helm install databunkerpro databunkerpro/databunkerpro
kubectl port-forward service/databunkerpro 3000:3000

Helm install guide →

Four Weeks From Now

Three moments in a normal week. Each used to consume your team for days. Now they take minutes — because the data lives in one place, and you can answer for it.

Monday morning

A customer files a DSAR

Your DPO pings you: “European customer wants their data deleted.” You point them at the portal. Five minutes later, done. The week-long fire drill is now a Slack thread.

Wednesday afternoon

A residency clause hits the deal

Enterprise prospect sends a DPA addendum: Indian customer data must stay in Mumbai. Your sales engineer answers on the same call: “Already covered — here’s the architecture diagram.” The deal closes on schedule.

Friday afternoon

The auditor asks where data lives

Your SOC 2 auditor asks for proof of data location. You hand them the architecture diagram and one access log. The conversation ends in twenty minutes — not three weeks of Slack archaeology.

That is what “paid down PII tech debt” actually looks like — not a slide in the board deck, a line in the next quarter’s wins.

Teams That Already Paid Down the Debt

Three CTOs who made the migration. What they got back.

"Databunker Pro saved us 6 months of dev time. The API was a breeze to integrate, and we passed our PCI audit with zero issues."

— Elliot S., Software Director at Cashware

"We ditched our custom encryption for Databunker Pro. It’s faster, more secure, and the team loves the PHP & Python support."

— Sergey M., Cloud Architect at Signature IT

"Open-source roots and military-grade security? Databunker Pro was a no-brainer for our SaaS platform."

— Dmitry K., R&D Manager at Accelario

Why Architects Sign Off on the Migration

Six features that turn "consolidate everything to Databunker" from a risky migration into one you only do once. Each one is a tool your senior engineers can defend in design review.

Different reveal for different roles

Analytics gets tokens. Support sees last-4. Security gets full reveal. All by policy — not by writing if-statements in twelve services.

CRBAC + masking policies

Find users by typo'd name

Hashed search indexes let support find “Johnatan Smyth” even though the vault stores it encrypted. No decryption, no plaintext leak.

Fuzzy search on encrypted data

Hand the auditor any past version

Every create, every update, every export — captured with an integrity hash. Answer “what did this profile look like on March 14?” in one API call.

Record versioning + audit trail

Tenant isolation enforced by the database

PostgreSQL Row-Level Security at the database layer means a query for tenant A literally cannot return tenant B’s rows. The database enforces it. Your team doesn’t have to remember to.

Multi-tenancy with RLS

Rotate keys quarterly. Don’t touch the data.

Master key encrypted with your AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, or HashiCorp Vault. Rotation re-wraps the master key once — your millions of records stay untouched.

BYOK + zero-downtime key rotation

Privacy ops in one screen, not fifteen

Group users by tenant, region, or processing context. Hand the DPO portal to your privacy team to run DSARs and consent — without engineering involvement.

Group management + DPO portal

What This Looks Like to Your Auditor

Same vault, same evidence, same answer to “where does the data live?” — across every framework your enterprise prospects ask about.

DPDPA & CCPA

One vault answers consumer-rights requests in seconds — across India and California — with the same audit trail and the same architecture diagram.

GDPR & PCI DSS

Tokens replace PII and card data in your app. Most systems drop out of audit scope. Both frameworks see one source of truth instead of twelve.

SOC 2 & ISO 27001

Encryption, access control, audit log, key rotation — all evidence your CPA firm can export in one click, not reconstruct across systems.

The Questions Every Architect Asks First

"Will this slow down my app?"

No. Databunker is written in Go for near-native performance. Token lookups add single-digit milliseconds. We handle 20M+ records in production with no performance issues.

"What if Databunker goes down?"

Databunker supports high availability with database replication (PostgreSQL/MySQL). Your tokens remain valid and your app continues to function — PII lookups queue until recovery.

"Can we migrate gradually?"

Yes. Start by tokenizing one service or one data type. Databunker runs alongside your existing database. No big-bang migration required.

"Where is data stored?"

You choose. Self-host on-premises, in your own cloud VPC, or let enterprise clients host their own vault in any region. You control the data residency.

20M+ Records. One Answer to “Where Do They Live?”

Self-hosted, cloud, or hybrid — Databunker fits the architecture you already have, and gives you back a single source of truth for PII.

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In 20 minutes, a Databunker engineer maps where your PII lives, shows what tokenization would change, and hands you a migration plan. No deck. No sales pitch.

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