Financial Services Cybersecurity
Cyber resilience for the financial industry
Cyber resilience for the financial industry
Futurex cryptographic solutions handle every aspect of payment acquiring, as well as card and mobile issuing. Deploy Futurex HSMs and key management servers in the cloud, on premises, or in a hybrid configuration. The wide range of deployment options for financial institutions is matched by flexible integration with all major cryptographic interfaces. Our solutions are FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated to protect cardholder data and uphold consumer trust.
The cybersecurity needs of banks and credit unions are centered around card and mobile issuing and transaction processing. Financial institutions issue payments cards and provision mobile payment tokens, while also processing encrypted transactions and managing keys. A typical payment transaction sends cardholder data through multiple networks for authorization. Strong encryption and cryptographic processing are needed each step of the way.
Deploy Futurex payment HSMs on-premises or in the VirtuCrypt cloud to protect cardholder data. Futurex HSMs perform card and mobile issuing, transaction acquiring, ATM key injection, and P2PE with industry-leading speed. Their broad support for major cryptographic interfaces, including the RESTful web API, makes it easy to integrate them with host applications. Futurex HMS are FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated, and compliant with a range of international standards.
Agility is what keeps fintech providers and neobanks on the cutting edge. Many organizations achieve cryptographic agility by migrating infrastructure to the cloud. But to migrate to the cloud, financial organizations need guaranteed access to a full range of cryptographic services and API integration options. Remote management of cloud infrastructure plays a critical role.
VirtuCrypt, Futurex’s global cloud service, allows fintechs and neobanks to deploy cloud payment HSMs and key management solutions. Resolve individual use cases or spin up complete cloud-based architecture on-demand, anywhere in the world. Our HSMs support a vast range of vendor neutral APIs, including the RESTful web API, cutting down the time it takes to integrate with host applications.
Payment service providers (PSPs) – such as payment gateways, merchant acquirers, and ESOs – perform a range of payment acquiring and key management functions. Whether you need to help clients get to market faster or maintain payment terminals, your solution should be versatile, powerful, and easy to deploy.
Futurex payment HSMs and key management servers handle all of your payment acquiring needs. They are scalable, allowing financial service providers to adapt to changing throughput demands. Deploy in the cloud, on-premises, or as a hybrid model. Simplify management of encryption keys and connected devices. Best of all, the functional flexibility and broad API support of Futurex HSMs helps you get your clients to market faster.
By adopting a cloud strategy, payment application providers can make it easier for customers to deploy payment applications in the cloud of the customer’s choice and under their control. Additionally, you can skip the process of physically installing software on the client’s on-premises server. A new and growing market for payment application providers is providing their own managed services to customers, in addition to their software offering.
Futurex’s goal is to help payment application providers execute a successful cloud strategy. Instead of installing your software on the customer’s servers, Futurex’s cryptographic platform allows your customer to deploy your payment applications in a public cloud of their choosing. Futurex can also help you offer your application as a managed service, strengthening revenue and partnerships.
Card brands need cryptographic infrastructure to handle large volumes of card and mobile issuing and transaction processing. Payment transactions send cardholder data through multiple organizations’ networks for authorization. Strong encryption is needed each step of the way. Card brands have the added responsibility of protecting stored cardholder data for verification and authorization.
Deploy Futurex payment HSMs on-premises or in the cloud to handle every aspect of transaction acquiring and payment card issuing. In addition to transaction processing, Futurex’s platform allows a turnkey EMV CA solution. EMV CA issues certificates and digital signatures to smart cards. These allow the cards to be validated by ATMs and point of sale (POS) terminals during payment transactions.
Retailers have a diverse list of cybersecurity needs. Their responsibilities include processing transactions, issuing payment cards, and protecting cardholder data in transit and at rest. While maintaining security, retailers often seek to reduce costs by limiting the scope of their compliance requirements. This requires functions such as tokenization and P2PE.
Futurex helps retailers protect cardholder data and limit compliance scope. Using Futurex payment HSMs to establish P2PE protects cardholder data from the point of sale (POS) onward. Futurex HSMs also help establish “vaultless” tokenization. Cardholder data is replaced with surrogate values (tokens) using format preserving encryption (FPE), which avoids providing irregular data to databases running format checks. Vaultless tokenization relies on hashes instead of encryption keys, making it compatible with software encryption solutions.
In Futurex’s VirtuCrypt cloud, you can spin up cloud payment HSMs on-demand and assign them to device clusters. Simplify management, eliminate single points of failure, and perform updates with no downtime.
Our team helps you seamlessly transition your financial services cybersecurity infrastructure to the VirtuCrypt cloud. Configure and manage HSMs in real-time using the VirtuCrypt Intelligence Portal (VIP).
Save instances of cloud HSMs for backup, migration, and testing environments. Use snapshots to build cloud HSM templates to deploy new devices faster and avoid configuration errors.
Any cryptographic function. Any size. Any scale. Any location.
The Futurex suite of data security solutions has been integrated into the largest financial services organizations, from high-volume payment processors to Tier-1 banks. These businesses have chosen Futurex technology because they trust its superior security, functionality, and operational resilience.
Beyond the versatility afforded by Futurex solutions, the financial services sector prefers Futurex devices for their simple integration into existing computer systems and the ease with which Futurex provides customized functionality specific to each client.
With the market-leading Futurex HSMs available on-premises or through the VirtuCrypt cloud, your organization acquires comprehensive cryptographic functionality to keep your clients’ personal data as secure as their level of trust.
Configure Futurex HSMs through the VirtuCrypt Intelligence Portal (VIP) for ultimate scalability, operational resilience, threat detection, HSM snapshots, and cutting-edge orchestration.
We know that compliance is also a vital factor when choosing a provider, so we designed Futurex solutions from the ground up to adhere to all major industry compliance standards, including PCI DSS, FIPS 140-2 Level 3, and PCI HSM.
Futurex products, validated as Secure Cryptographic Devices (SCD), promote robust cyber security through tamper-responsiveness, reinforced chassis, dual bezel locks, and logical restrictions such as role-based permissions and dual control.
Financial institutions have to stay up-to-date with the newest payment trends and technologies to offer their clients the best security and services available. Futurex HSMs offer scalable functionality and high throughput, with processing rates of over 25,000 TPS in a single device.
Through our built-in forward compatibility and commitment to innovation, financial services organizations rest easy knowing their cryptographic infrastructures are always ahead of the threat.
Futurex products for the financial services industry offer a range of operations to provide a good customer experience and a strong cybersecurity posture.
Both EMV card preparation and EMV transaction processing are available with Futurex devices.
Using Futurex HSMs, the financial services industry can create secure endpoint communication with point-to-point encryption of all user data.
You can replace stored payment information with secure tokens, removing in-the-clear data and significantly reducing PCI compliance scope for financial institutions.
Create a PKI with full certificate trees and perform RSA transactions by using secure Futurex HSMs and key management servers for your financial institution.
What are the main advantages of establishing a PKI?
You can use the Futurex KMES Series 3 to establish a public key infrastructure (PKI). Businesses in the financial sector can create a secure environment to manage keys, issue digital certificates, mitigate cyber threats, and more.
A PKI creates the cybersecurity infrastructure with the following advantages:
ATMs, relied upon for diverse cash operations, are integral to any payment system. Futurex technology enables manual and remote key loading for maximum cybersecurity for financial services firms.
Futurex devices support a variety of detection and response technologies to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities.
Manage devices across an entire network through one server, promoting ease of use and decreasing risks resulting from human behavior.
In addition to the disaster recovery inherent in the physical hardware through redundant power supplies and ports, financial services companies can create a reliable infrastructure with the Guardian Series 3.