Venafi Platform with Thales HSMs - Integration Guide

Thales Luna HSMs are available as on premise hardware HSMs, also known as Luna HSMs and as a cloud offering, namely DPoD Luna Cloud HSM. The benefits of integrating these HSMs with Venafi Platform include:

• Secure generation, storage and protection of the Identity signing private key on FIPS 140-2 level 3 validated hardware.
• Full life cycle management of the keys.
• HSM audit trail*.
• Significant performance improvements by off-loading cryptographic operations from application servers.

*Luna Cloud HSM service does not have access to the secure audit trail Certified Platforms