France-based Thales has announced the launch of its new payShield Cloud HSM service, aimed to improve the acceleration of cloud payments infrastructure adoption. Following this announcement, customers will be enabled to use the subscription-based digital payment security service in order to accelerate the adoption and integration of cloud-based payments infrastructure.

The solution was built on its payShield 10k Payment Hardware Security Module (HSM), focusing on providing clients with improved flexibility, scalability, and speed-to-market solutions. Furthermore, the monthly subscription service integrates with multiple cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Clients will have the capability to use it in hybrid deployments, which enables them to move any application to the cloud at their own pace, in line with their own preferences and needs.

Moreover, this feature allows the users to avoid disruption to their on-prem HSM infrastructure. More details on the product launch The deployment of the payShield Cloud HSM is fast, and it was designed to deliver instant security, segregation of duties, and functions that meet the demands of payment brands such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB, Discover, or UnionPay. According to the press release, the new product was built to use Thales’ payment HSMs deployments, which offers partners and clients the possibility to protect their cryptographic keys and sensitive data while using secure payment processes, both online and in person.

The payShield Cloud HSM represents an alternative way for companies and businesses to meet their preferable payment security needs, focusing on simplifying the process of sharing production HSMs across multiple locations and several applications. The service allows more HSMs to be added by customers in a secure and quick manner, and they can be used for resilience, backup, or capacity. Thales made the solution available to be supported by numerous data centers around the US and EU regions, and it will be leveraged for improving the way businesses manage their growing complexity of data sovereignty.

The data centers were developed to meet the requirements of critical data security and standards of the industry, including PCI PIN security, which is essential for the payment processing procedure. In addition, the payShield Cloud HSM solution is available for already existing Thales clients and customers that are migrating to a multi-cloud environment, or that are adopting a hybrid approach. Moreover, new users can access and leverage the product as well, if they prefer a cloud service payment security approach for their needs.

For the customers that already use payShield, the service offers full backward compatibility with on-promises payShiled HSMs. This includes any existing custom codes. .