payShield Cloud HSM Service
Welcome to the payShield Cloud HSM Service
Thales is pleased to welcome you as a subscriber to the payShield Cloud HSM service. We are confident in the robust, secure, and flexible features of our service offering which are designed to meet your evolving payment security needs in an efficient manner. The service is under constant review and is enhanced on a regular basis to support the functionality and security requirements of the payments market for a broad range of use cases.
If you are familiar with and have used Thales payment HSMs in the past, leveraging the payShield Cloud HSMs for your payment application workloads is a very straightforward and low risk option due to the high levels of backwards compatibility with the market-leading payShield 10K on-prem HSMs – operating a hybrid environment of on-prem and cloud HSMs is perfectly feasible and encouraged. If you are new to Thales payment HSM solutions, you will find how easy it is to utilize the service to meet your payment security needs without any need to purchase or maintain physical hardware and software – Thales takes care of this on your behalf. We are confident that you will experience significant benefits including:
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Flexibility – simplifies sharing of your production HSMs across multiple applications, staff, and regions
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Future proof – offers you access to the latest certified payShield hardware and software on demand
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Scalability – enables extra HSMs to be added quickly to your HSM estate in support of resilience, backup, or capacity needs
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Cloud agnostic – works seamlessly with fast, secure connections to all major public cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud)
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Cash flow – avoids up-front investment by offering a flexible, monthly subscription service to improve your cash flow
In the remainder of this guide, we cover the service in more detail and explain in a series of simple steps how you can get up and running as quickly as possible to maximize your investment in the Thales payShield Cloud HSM service.
