Data Encryption for Banks & Financial Services
Protect sensitive customer banking data while meeting global and industry mandates
Entrust nShield® HSMs offer comprehensive key management and protection to secure data across devices, processes, platforms and environments. Entrust nShield HSMs help financial service providers protect their customers, meet government and industry data security compliance standards, facilitate security auditing and avoid the reputational damage caused by data breaches.
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Challenges
Regulatory Compliance
The data security compliance and regulation challenges alone are daunting for banking and financial services firms. Data-at-rest security requirements are found within PCI DSS for credit card related information, GLBA, SOX/J-SOX, NCUA, data privacy and data residency laws, and even the USA Patriot Act
Securing Data
To protect their reputation banking and financial services firms and their executives must safeguard critical financial data from exposure.
Protecting Against Insiders, APTs and Future Threats
As financial services’ online infrastructures evolve and increase in numbers, procedures need to be in place to not only protect the data, but to also identify and alert the organization of unauthorized access.
Solutions
Strong Key Management
Entrust nShield Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are hardened, tamper-resistant devices that help protect financial institutions’ most sensitive data by securely generating, managing and storing encryption and signing keys.
Secure Execution Environment
In addition to protecting your sensitive keys, Entrust nShield HSMs also provide a secure environment for running proprietary applications. The CodeSafe option lets you develop and execute code within Entrust nShield HSMs’ FIPS 140-2 Level 3 boundaries, safeguarding your applications from potential attacks.
Benefits
Alignment with Global Compliance and Regulatory Standards
Entrust’s adherence to rigorous standards helps you demonstrate compliance in regulated environments while delivering high confidence in the security and integrity of Entrust nShield HSMs.
Ready for Blockchain Applications
Entrust nShield HSMs help financial services organizations protect and manage the cryptographic keys that underpin blockchain and other distributed ledger applications. Entrust nShield HSMs enable enterprises to design architectures that provide the high-assurance security required for distributed ledgers.
Resources
Entrust nShield HSMs provide a hardened, tamper-resistant environment for secure cryptographic processing, key generation and protection, encryption and more. Available in three FIPS 140-2 certified form factors, Entrust nShield HSMs support a variety of deployment scenarios.
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