Jordan aims to protect his customers' identities in case hackers acquire a copy of his organization's web application database. He intends to shield their Social Security numbers (SSNs) by replacing them with an alternate value that he can utilize to locate a customer's record. What approach can he adopt to achieve this objective?

Tokenization is a suitable solution for this situation. It involves replacing a sensitive value with a substitute value that can be used to retrieve the original value from a table when necessary. Encryption is not a suitable option, as it does not offer this feature. Data masking, on the other hand, only conceals a portion of the value. Lastly, the term "data washing" is not commonly used to describe techniques of this nature.