payShield 10K The hardware security module
03 Jul 2021payShield 10K: The hardware security module that secures the world’s payments
payShield 10K
- Simplifies deployment in dark data centers
- Delivers high resilience and availability
- Offers the broadest support of card and mobile applications in a timely manner
- Supports performance upgrades without hardware change
- Maintains backwards compatibility with all legacy Thales payment HSMs
Overview
payShield 10K is a payment hardware security module (HSM) used extensively throughout the global payment ecosystem by issuers, service providers, acquirers, processors and payment networks. It plays a fundamental security role in securing the payment credential issuing, user authentication, card authentication and sensitive data protection processes for both face-to-face and digital remote payments.
Common use cases
- Payment credential issuing – cards, mobile secure elements, wearables, connected devices and host card emulation (HCE) applications
- PIN routing
- Point to point encryption (P2PE)
- Security tokenization (for PCI DSS compliance)
- EMV payment tokenisation
- Card and mobile payment authorization
- POS, mPOS and SPoC key management
- PIN and EMV cryptogram validation
- Remote key loading
Learn more: https://go.thalesesecurity.com/rs/480-LWA-970/images/payShield-10K-ds.pdf