Manage Devices Around the World with a Single Monitoring solution.

Our HSM remote management tool helps reduce total cost of ownership by removing time spent in the datacentre and streamlining and minimising downtime needed with an HSM. Remote engagement with your HSM’s allows one to manage multiple HSM’s over distributed physical environments across the globe, thereby increasing the efficiency of distributed cryptographic infrastructure.

Safe connections, reduced travel time, expenses and lengthy passthrough procedures, near-zero data centre access and even faster delivering of updates are but some of the added benefits of managing your devices remotely and it is as secure as actually engaging with the HSM, if not safer!

Our HSM Monitoring tool:

• Allows for easy device configuration and management
• Seamlessly performs remote key management and establishes injection platforms
• Drastically reduce the operating costs by allowing one to manage HSMs remotely, outside of the
  data centres
• Runs on a powerful user interface with intuitive functionality
• Allows for a seamless addition of new devices once the first device is configured
• Allows for a 24 x 7 management of the device even in the availability of the physical access to the data centre
• Scales easily to support a large estate across the globe
• Makes use of a standard web browser or smart interface
• Easily allows remote functionality such as key management, security configuration and software license updates

Through the virtual console, the administrator has the ability to perform the same tasks as if he is in front of the HSM, with the benefit of working remotely. Security features such as the dual logins required to access the configuration application allows the administrator to safely access the HSM and perform standard or critical work as it is required. The remote management software also allows one to:

• Perform online, offline, secure and authorized state operations
• Use smart cards to replace the physical keys during local and remote operations
• Generate, install and migrate Local Master Key (LMK)
• Manage host, alarm and printer port settings
• Configure security settings
• Establish HTTPS session to load firmware and licenses
• Perform audit trail and error log management
• Perform diagnostic functions such as utilization statistics, configuration settings and health check data
• Establish segregation of duties for security personnel (administrators and operators) through personalized access smart cards

Be more in control of your HSM environment through constant monitoring and instant alerting

Through our HSM monitoring tool, alerts and status information is delivered automatically through a variety of interfaces including making the syslog data available to your SIEM solution while removing you from the physical presence to the HSM. This enables one to respond immediately should anything happen, which could range from a simple change to the HSM, to a critical incident. Each event can be categorized and allocated to a specific group for responsive action to be taken.

The monitoring solution refreshes the HSM’s utilization statistics every minute. Through role separation, our solution allows you to configure and channel information to various people such as high level alarms that would fall under the administrator’s responsibility, to statistics that are shared with the monitoring team. Critical events can be set to trigger an email notification to ensure immediate response from your engineers when you need it, while removing the burden of an entire team expected to monitor the system 24/7.

HSM performance can be monitored either individually or as part of a group to identify underutilized devices or potential bottlenecks in the environment. Devices monitored in groups allows one to retrieve information such as the top performing or underperforming devices by various functions, sensitivity, thresholds, and many other options. HSM’s monitoring provides the user with a wide variety of information such as general device information, device performance or device health.

All of this information is available through user interactive, information rich performance graphs via the dashboard which can also be printed and exported as the need arises.

Introducing our Remote Key Loading devices that seamlessly integrates with our HSM’s to provide an efficient, flexible and secure approach to managing and sharing critical keys remotely.

You can now securely manage your cryptographic keys into your HSM in a manner compliant with relevant security standards, including X9 TR-31, ANSI X9.24-1 and PCI PIN Security, to achieve operational flexibility without compromising security.

Keys are formed for multiple HSM’s distributed globally to create and distribute thousands of symmetric keys in a timely and secure manner while eliminating data entry errors. These keys can then be loaded and shared securely with the HSM through the use of a range of methods such as QR codes, smart cards, USB tokens and even paper components.

The remote key loading device also helps to improve efficiency through an easy to understand solution that simplifies key management and eliminates common data entry errors.

The device itself makes it so much easier to quickly share keys or information you need for easy entry into the device, and keys remain protected as it will erase immediately on tampering of the device.

To further improve security, you are now able to do away with key component storage after keys have been formed and shared as new key components are recreated on already installed keys if it needs to be shared and at a reduced cost.

Our devices also record the actions performed in a comprehensive audit log, together with the smartcard serial numbers used during the process – any attempt to modify log entries are detected which makes our remote key loading devices an outstanding benefit to any organisation.