payShield 10K The hardware security module

03 Jul 2021

payShield 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