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Improve your security posture

with cloud cryptography

plications running inside public cloud providers such
as AWS, Azure and GCP. Within these PCI DSS- PCI
PIN- and PCI P2PE-reviewed infrastructures, crypto-
graphic processing and key management functions
are powered by Futurex's FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and PCI
HSM validated cryptographic modules.
• Agile, redundant systems: Rapid deployments, which
uturex, a data security solutions provider, provide the ability to spin up and spin down cloud
enhanced VirtuCrypt, its cloud cryptography and HSMs on demand, are fully redundant with data cen-
key management solution designed to facilitate ters based in every major region of the world, provid-
F PCI compliant and FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated ing SLA-backed uptime of up to 99.999 percent.
cloud HSMs across transaction acquiring, card issuance • Broad compatibility: Futurex, a registered Encryp-
and point-to-point encryption (P2PE), the company stated. tion Services Organization (ESO), services all major
processors and issuers and provides database encryp-
Ryan Smith, vice president of global business development tion, file encryption and integration to all types of or-
at Futurex, said VirtuCrypt builds on a heritage of inno- ganizations and remote POS key loading to numerous
vation. "We have been working with the financial services device manufacturers.
industry for more than 40 years," he said. "We're proud to
announce a range of groundbreaking enhancements to our Channel partner benefits
VirtuCrypt financial cloud HSM, delivering on our com-
mitment to meeting the security and compliance needs of Financial services organizations depend on HSMs for se-
financial services organizations worldwide." cure, compliant transaction acquiring, card and mobile
issuing, and P2PE, Smith stated. HSMs are used for PIN
Smith described VirtuCrypt as "everything you'd expect translation and verification, CVV generation and valida-
in a cloud service," with scalability, disaster recovery and tion, EMV validation, message authentication code genera-
failover, and the ability to spin up or spin down HSMs on tion and verification, key management, and mobile pay-
demand. The service is backed by 24/7/365 support and ment processing. In addition, banks, ISOs and PSPs use
used by ISOs, financial institutions, retailers and payment HSMs to issue payment cards and provision mobile pay-
service providers, he added. ment tokens, he added. When retailers use terminals sup-
porting remote key loading, it eliminates the need for the
Compliant, versatile cryptography terminals to be shipped out to an ESO for re-keying, when-
ever those activities are required. Offering this service is a
Smith further noted that VirtuCrypt, a true cloud pay- huge value-add, Smith stated.
ment hardware security solution, is designed, developed
and manufactured by Futurex. "It's easy to take out a con- When payment processors use cloud infrastructure (includ-
tract for space in a commodity data center and throw some ing cloud HSMs), they can focus on core business instead
HSMs in a rack … but that's not a cloud HSM service; that's of managing IT infrastructure, Smith said. This lowers risk
co-location with some fancy marketing wrapped around of outages, streamlines operations, reduces costs, especially
it," he said, citing the following ways in which VirtuCrypt CAPEX and OPEX, and these benefits can be passed down
complements Futurex partner IT ecosystems: to ISOs and their customers, he added. "VirtuCrypt servic-
• Cloud enablement: Historically, lack of compliant, es have five data centers worldwide and certifications in-
scalable, versatile cloud HSMs has been a major im- clude PCI DSS, PCI PIN, PCI P2PE, and TR-39," Smith said,
pediment to cloud migrations. VirtuCrypt has re- noting that the service as a platform-agnostic way to deploy
moved these barriers, enabling ISOs and other ser- cryptographic services across a range of financial use cases
vice providers to migrate entire infrastructures to the and architectures.
cloud.
• Hybrid models: For organizations that prefer to main- Company: Futurex
tain on-premises HSMs, VirtuCrypt hybrid solutions
can seamlessly interface physical and cloud payment Product: VirtuCrypt cloud payment HSM service
HSMs, providing flexibility and scalability in how Website: www.futurex.com
these companies protect their most sensitive data.
• Native integrations: For additional flexibility, Virtu- Contact: info@futurex.com
Crypt supports native integrations with payment ap-
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