payShield Monitor

Providing 24x7 oversight of all your payShield HSMs in one centralized location.

payShield Monitor delivers comprehensive visibility into HSM configuration, performance, and utilization across individual devices and groups. It provides bundled configuration views, detailed dashboards, and flexible reporting with drill-down analysis down to specific cryptographic functions.

This level of insight helps security and operations teams quickly identify performance issues, capacity risks, misconfigurations, or suspicious activity. By enabling data-driven decisions through real-time and historical analysis, payShield Monitor reduces outage risk, strengthens security oversight, and optimizes HSM performance across enterprise environments.

Benefits of the payShield Monitor

Instant Alerts

Instant Alerts

Automated HSM monitoring with role-based alerts to prevent outages and enable proactive action.

Continuous Tracking

Continuous Tracking

Real-time HSM performance and health monitoring with early warnings to prevent capacity overload.

Comprehensive Data

Comprehensive Data

Actionable HSM insights with configurable views, detailed reporting, and deep performance analysis.

Cost Savings

Cost Savings

Reduce operating costs by eliminating the need to physically access HSMs to retrieve important data.

payShield Monitor

Gain 24/7 global visibility with Thales payShield Monitor. Real-time tracking of HSM health and utilization ensures your payment infrastructure remains secure and efficient. Proactively identify security threats and configuration risks to prevent downtime and maintain total control over your mission-critical distributed data centers.

payShield Monitor

    Central Monitoring Capabilities

    Ensure HSM uptime with payShield Monitor’s minute-by-minute utilization, threshold-based alerts (email, SNMP, syslog, web), and flexible analysis windows, from one hour to custom ranges, plus detailed attribute reports to quickly detect and resolve critical HSM issues, including:

    • Operational status
    • Physical security and any tamper attempts
    • Alarms and alerts
    • Utilization and capacity
    • Configuration changes with user tracking

    Role-based Access Control

    payShield Monitor supports three distinct user roles to enhance security and establish clear separation of configuration and administration duties. These three roles are:

    • Administrator, manages deployment
    • Group Manager, controls monitoring of HSMs and groups of HSMs
    • Auditor, views data and reports

    Virtual Appliance Minimum Specification

    • 2 CPUs with 2 cores each
    • 8 GB RAM
    • Thin provisioned hard drives
    • Compatible with ESXi 5.1 and later (VM Version 9)

    HSM compatibility

    • payShield 10K with base or custom software version 1.0 or later with SNMPv3 messaging enabled

    Thales payShield is the #1 ranked solution in top Payment HSM solutions.

    PeerSpot users give Thales payShield an average rating of 9.5 out of 10.

    Thales Ranked #1 in ABI Research’s Payment HSM Competitive Ranking

    This recognition highlights Thales’ deep-rooted expertise in cryptography, and its trusted payShield HSM product lines used by financial institutions worldwide.

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