Our Story

For more than 29 years, Futurex has been a globally recognized leader in providing cost-effective data encryption solutions for financial networks, banks, terminal manufacturers, transaction processors, and retail customers. More than 15,000 customers worldwide have used Futurex solutions to protect their highly sensitive data.

Originally located in California for nearly 25 years, Futurex was acquired from Comcast in 2001 by Mr. Brett Smith, a financial services and electronic payments industry veteran. Mr. Smith relocated the company to Bulverde, Texas in 2005 where it is now headquartered. His keen sense of leadership and industry experience has helped turn Futurex into a highly respected and result-oriented data encryption solutions provider.

Our success comes from our dedication to providing world-class customer service, best-in-class technology, and cost-effective solutions for our customers. Growing on this success, our products and services are continuously expanding to deliver innovative solutions to meet the growing business needs of our global customers. Futurex has integrated partnerships with Fortune 500 companies in the retail and financial transaction industry, which allow us to integrate into many different data transaction networks.

As our products are best-in-class, we are able to provide outstanding performance, cutting-edge features, and a wide range of functionality for all of our systems. Our Host Security Modules and Key Management Server product lines abide by stringent industry compliance standards such as FIPS, ANSI, PCI DSS, and SOX. Our comprehensive product line provides innovative solutions for the most intense security requirements. As we move forward, Futurex will continue to be a global corporate leader in the data security and electronic payments industry by constantly maintaining high performance standards, providing quality service, and expanding our best-in-class product solutions.

Our Mission Statement

Futurex’s mission is to be the leading provider of cryptographic solutions in the world. We strive to enhance transaction speeds, embrace new technologies and establish innovative standards within our industry. We have an unyielding commitment to excellence, by maintaining high performance standards, providing quality service and a best-in-class product offering. Our goal is to increase market share each year by expanding our product mix and enhancing the profitability of our business partners.

Our Business Strategies

Futurex has established the following core business strategies to deliver the most innovative and cost-effective encryption product solutions in the market:

• Leverage core product strengths to bring innovative solutions to existing and new markets.
• Expand product mix to meet rising demands for compliance and increased acceptance of standards.
• Maintain an industry-leading position on cost-benefit parity to our peers.
• Support all payment transaction types.
• Apply hardware solutions to enhance security and accelerate cryptographic operations.