Key Management
Cryptographic keys play a central part in securing ATM and POS transactions as well as in online payments and Internet banking.
Regulatory compliance is driving banks and payment processors to increase the use of cryptographic keys to protect data, authenticate users, enable digital signing of documents, etc. As a consequence, these companies will see an exponential growth in the number of keys to manage over the next five to ten years.
To date, key management has mostly been conducted manually, which has resulted in complex and resource-intensive processes that require a number of people and functions to be involved. There is a great value in automating key management while maintaining a high degree of security.
Chiave
Chiave is a new end-to-end key management solution with the ability to keep track of all the policies governing the generation, storage and ceremonies associated with cryptographic keys. By automating and centralizing many of the hitherto manual processes associated with keys, Chiave helps to reduce human error and facilitates key management on a larger scale. Chiave is therefore an ideal solution for companies such as banks and payment processors.
Hnossa
Hnossa is a key and certification appliance that simplifies mass generation of private keys and certificates based on a public key infrastructure (PKI). Developed in close collaboration with financial institutions and personalization bureaus, Hnossa is easily implemented as a component to simplify the solution architecture within a production environment. Tamper resistant cryptographic hardware (FIPS 140-2 and EAL 4+ or higher) is used for key generation and encryption.
Hnossa is designed to handle large scale, secure offboard generation of keys and certificates for large deployments of PKI on cards for Banking and National ID Scheme applications.
Hnossa is a fully scaleable platform for both smaller issuing banks to large bureaus