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What is a payment HSM?
A Payment HSM is a tamper-resistant hardware security module that protects PINs, cryptographic keys, and card data for secure payment processing. Designed for banking and card transactions, it supports EMV and magstripe while meeting PCI PIN Security and FIPS 140-2/140-3 standards as reducing fraud, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding trust at scale.
Thales payShield: Your Trusted Payment HSM
Secure every payment card transaction with Thales payShield, the trusted payShield HSM protects 80% of global POS transactions. Prevents fraud, accelerates time-to-market, ensures PCI DSS and EMV compliance, and scales confidently with high-performance cryptography built for today and tomorrow’s payment ecosystems.
High resilience and availability with proven integration
Remote HSM management and monitoring
Delivers high transactions speeds, with up to 10,000 CPS
Broadest card and mobile application support
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.
Common Payment HSM Use Cases
EMV & Payment Card Issuance
Secure payments today; wallet-based credentials redefine security, control and liability.
Mobile Card Payments
Mobile wallets, tokenization, NFC: secure payments anywhere, anytime.
Payment Processing
Modern payments demand unified security across merchants, banks, wallets, and cloud transactions.
mPOS Security
Secure, low-cost mPOS brings card payments to micro-merchants—unlocking new markets for acquirers.
Thales payShield is the #1 ranked solution in top Payment HSM solutions.
PeerSpot users give Thales payShield HSMs an average rating of 9.5 out of 10.
Payment HSM Solutions
Protecting Payments, Enabling Innovation
payShield 10K
- Delivers high transactions speeds, with up to 10,000 CPS
- Maintains backwards compatibility with all legacy Thales payment HSMs
- Key management securely generates, stores, rotates, and protects payment cryptographic keys
payShield Cloud HSM
- Flexibility simplifies sharing of production HSMs across multiple applications, staff and regions
- Future proof offers access to the latest certified payShield hardware and software on demand
- Scalability enables extra HSMs to be added quickly for resilience, backup or capacity
payShield Manager
- Reduces operating costs by eliminating the need to manage HSMs inside data centers
- Provides 24 x 7 management even when local physical access to HSMs is not available
- Scales easily to support a large estate of HSMs deployed across multiple locations
payShield Monitor
- Provides 24 x 7 visibility on all Thales payShield hardware security modules (HSMs)
- Identifies performance bottlenecks to improve capacity planning
- Enables immediate response to potential issues through comprehensive alerts
payShield Trusted Management Device
- Encrypts sensitive key information at point of entry via secure touch screen
- Enforces strong role-based authentication for critical tasks
- Supports choice of output formats for keys and components
payShield Solutions Partners
- Launch compliant payment solutions faster with pre-integrated workflows
- Win customer trust using built-in key management and audit-ready compliance
- Scale transaction volumes confidently with high-availability hybrid HSM architectures
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