Organizations typically use an HSM when they need a high-assurance hardware root of trust to protect cryptographic keys, secure critical operations such as PKI or code signing, and support stringent compliance or audit requirements.

What are the benefits of using HSMs?

HSMs help organizations protect cryptographic keys inside tamper-resistant hardware, reduce exposure from software-only key storage, support compliance, simplify secure key operations, integrate with enterprise applications, and establish a hardware root of trust for current and future cryptographic needs.

What are modern HSM use cases?

Luna HSMs play a critical role in protecting applications using emerging technologies:

• Post-Quantum Crypto Agility: Futureproof your organization with the flexibility to change protocols, keys and algorithms on the fly, quickly react to cryptographic threats, and enable quantum-safe algorithms today.
• Internet of Things (IoT): With the expansion of attack surfaces and an increased number of end points, you need to ensure devices and communications are properly secured. IoT relies on a strong root of trust to identity and communicate with all of the devices. Implement strong access controls, meet compliance, and ensure data integrity by creating secure digital identities for your IoT applications, physically and logically securing encryption keys with Luna HSM’s strong security architecture.
• Digital Assets: Digital asset ecosystems rely on trusted cryptographic operations to secure wallets, custody platforms, asset tokenization services, blockchain infrastructure, and transaction signing. Protect private keys and reduce operational risk by generating, storing, and managing keys within the secure confines of a tamper-resistant Luna HSM.
• 5G / Mobile Security: Although 5G is ready to transform industries, it does present risks to an organization such as an increase in entry points for attackers, and a threat to data integrity, availability and confidentiality. Secure 5G data with a hardware root of trust, ensuring protection of the master storage key that encrypts all identities issued to devices; strong entropy; and strict authentication controls.
• BYOK/HYOK/DKE: Maintain control over your encryption keys by creating, managing and storing them securely in a hardware root of trust, following best practices to always store your keys separately from your data. Use those same keys in multiple clouds so you aren’t tied to any one cloud service provider, and repatriate or move your data if need be.
• AI: Protect both the AI model and its input data with robust cryptographic mechanisms to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and trustworthiness of the AI system.