payShield 10K
payShield 10K, the fifth generation of payment HSMs from Thales, delivers a suite of payment security functionality proven in critical environments including transaction processing, sensitive data protection, payment credential issuing, mobile card acceptance and payment tokenisation. Like its predecessors over the past 30+ years, payShield 10K can be used throughout the global payment ecosystem by issuers, service providers, acquirers, processors and payment networks.
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Playing a fundamental security role for both face-to-face and digital remote payments, it delivers the necessary trust that underpins the communications between payments participants. Thales payShield 10K addresses the latest mandated security requirements and best practices for a wide range of organisations including EMVCo, PCI SSC, GlobalPlatform, Multos, ANSI and the various global and regional payment brands and networks.
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Simplify deployment
Our payment HSMs are capable of being securely configured, managed and monitored remotely from locations of convenience to reduce your costs and simplify your ongoing operations.
Maximise resilience
Equipped with dual hot-swappable power supplies and fans, our latest HSMs significantly increase the mean time between failure (MTBF) and simplify field maintenance.
Leverage proven integrations
Thales payment HSMs are the most widely deployed in the world and are supported by the largest number of payment application providers.
Card/mobile payments support
payShield 10K has a comprehensive range of functions that supports the needs of the leading payment brands (American Express, Discover, JCB, Mastercard, UnionPay and Visa) including:
- PIN and card verification functions for all major payment brands
- EMV transaction authorisation and messaging
- Mobile payment transaction authorisation and key management
- Remote key loading for ATM and POS devices
- Regional/national key management (including Australia, Belgium, Germany and Italy)
- Mastercard On-behalf key management (OBKM) support
- Magnetic stripe and EMV-based data preparation and personalisation including mobile provisioning
- PIN generation and printing
Cryptographic algorithms
- DES and triple-DES key lengths 112 & 168 bit
- AES key lengths 128 bit, 192 bit & 256 bit
- RSA (up to 4096 bits)
- ECC as defined in FIPS 186-3 (P-256, P-384 & P-521)
- HMAC, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 & SHA-512
Financial services standards
- ISO: 9564, 10118, 11568, 13491, 16609
- ANSI: X3.92, X9.8, X9.9, X9.17, X9.19, X9.24, X9.31, X9.52, X9.97
- ASC X9 TR-31, X9 TG-3/TR-39
- APACS 40 & 70
Host connectivity
- TCP/IP & UDP (1Gbps or 10Gbps) – dual ports
- Secure host communications management option for TLS authenticated sessions on Ethernet host port
- FICON - single port
Security Approvals
- FIPS 140-2 Level 3 (for the TASP security subsystem)
- PCI HSM v3 including RAP
- PCI HSM v3 KLD (for payShield TMD)
- AusPayNet
- CB HSM (SAFIRE v2.2 methodology)
- GBIC pre-evaluation
- Bancontact certificate holder
Base software packages
Base software packages with a range of performance levels are available to align closely with customer deployment and usage requirements.
Optional software licences
Optional licences are available to extend payShield functionality and can be acquired and installed at any time throughout the product lifecycle.
Package and licence upgrades
As your transaction volumes grow or you need to support new application use cases, performance is boosted via software licences and additional HSMs with different software packages can be added to the estate and managed as easily as the installed base.
payShield Manager
payShield 10K HSMs can be managed in local or remote mode using the payShield Manager browser-based application. The remote mode of payShield Manager is specifically designed to eliminate the need to travel to data centres for HSM management requires the purchase of an additional licence.
payShield Monitor
A comprehensive monitoring platform for both payShield 9000 and payShield 10K HSMs that enables operations teams to gain 24x7 visibility into the status of all their payShield HSMs, including those residing across distributed data centres.
payShield Trusted Management Device
The payShield Trusted Management Device (TMD) complements the payShield Manager remote management solution for Thales payment HSMs by offering an efficient, flexible and secure approach to managing and sharing critical keys in locations remote from production HSMs.
Smart cards
Secure smart cards to hold local master key (LMK) components for master key management and authentication credentials associated with remote HSM management options are available in packs of 6 or 30 to suit a wide range of customer deployment requirements.
Additional PSUs and fans
Each payShield 10K devices is fitted with dual hot-swappable power supply units (PSUs) and fans as standard. To provide coverage in the unlikely event of a hardware failure you can purchase spare PSUs and fans in advance to avoid any scheduled downtime.
Replacement locks and keys
payShield 10K uses two highly secure locks with associated keys on the front panel as part of the security administration procedures. The items are tightly controlled and registered and are not available on the open market. In the event that the device locks are damaged or keys are lost, a secure service to provide replacement locks and key is available from Thales.
payShield 10K - Data Sheet
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...
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Transaction processing using payShield HSMs - Brochure
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Sensitive Data Protection in the Retail Card Payments Ecosystem - Brochure
This document provides an overview of how organizations can leverage a mixture of the payShield HSM and Vormetric Data Security Platform solutions to provide complete protection of sensitive data as part of their retail card payment processing activities which are linked to a...
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Payment Credential Issuing using payShield HSMs - Brochure
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payShield Manager - Data Sheet
payShield Manager from Thales is a remote management solution designed specifically for both payShield 10K and payShield 9000. It enables remote operation of HSMs via a standard browser interface, leveraging smart card access control to establish secure connections with HSMs....
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payShield Monitor - Data Sheet
payShield Monitor from Thales is a comprehensive HSM monitoring platform that enables operations teams to gain 24x7 visibility into the status of all their payShield HSMs, including those residing across distributed data centers. With this solution, security teams can...
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payShield Trusted Management Device - Data Sheet
The payShield Trusted Management Device (TMD) from Thales is a compact, intuitive, self-contained secure cryptographic device (SCD) that enables you to securely manage symmetric keys. TMD generates keys in a manner that is compliant with relevant security standards, including...
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