Monitoring for Thales HSMs

CipherTrust Monitor gives you 24x7 oversight of all your Thales HSMs in one centralized location.

CipherTrust Monitor

CipherTrust Monitor from Thales e-Security is a comprehensive HSM monitoring platform that enables operations teams to gain 24x7 visibility into the status of all their payShield and nShield HSMs, including those residing across distributed data centers. With this solution, security teams can efficiently inspect HSMs and find out immediately if any potential security, configuration or utilization issue may compromise their mission-critical infrastructure.

Watch our video to see how CipherTrust Monitor can improve your HSM operations.

CipherTrust Monitor is a tool that lets you monitor, 24x7 and in one centralized location, all your Thales HSMs.

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Reduce operations costs

Eliminates the costs associated with physically accessing HSMs to retrieve important data.

Optimize utilization

Trends HSM performance and capacity to assist in optimizing deployment architecture.

Increase responsiveness

Equips administrators with the timely, targeted insights they need to proactively take corrective actions.

Central Monitoring Capabilities

CipherTrust Monitor refreshes utilization statistics for all HSMs every minute. Based on thresholds you define, the solution can generate alerts when critical situations arise. Choose from email, SNMP, syslog or Web interface as the delivery channel for any alerts. You define specific time periods for in-depth analysis, including last hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or custom intervals. CipherTrust Monitor reports on a range of attributes including:

Operational status
Physical security and any tamper attempts
Alarms and alerts
Utilization and capacity
Configuration changes with user tracking

HSM Compatibility

payShield 9000 with base or custom software version 1.1 or later with SNMPv3 messaging enabled
nShield Edge, Solo, Solo+, Connect and Connect+ with Security World Software v11.72 and higher
nShield Solo XC and Connect XC with Security World Software v12.40 and higher

Role-based Access Control

CipherTrust supports three distinct user roles to enhance security and establish clear separation of configuration and administration duties. These three roles are:

Administrator, manages deployment
Group Manager, controls monitoring of HSMs and groups of HSMs
Auditor, views data and reports

Virtual Appliance Minimum Specification

2 CPUs with 2 cores each
8 GB RAM
Thin provisioned hard drives
Compatible with ESXi 5.1 and later (VM Version 9)

Data Sheet : nShield Connect HSM

nShield Connect HSMs are certified, networked appliances that deliver cryptographic key services to applications distributed across servers and virtual machines.

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Data Sheet : nShield Solo HSM

nShield Solo HSMs are certified PCI-e card-based solutions that deliver cryptographic key services to applications hosted on individual servers and appliances.

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Data Sheet : payShield 9000

payShield 9000 is an HSM dedicated to payment applications that performs such tasks as PIN protection and validation, transaction processing, mobile and payment card issuance, and key management.

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Data Sheet : nShield Remote Administration

nShield Remote Administration is a central management tool that lets you manage your geographically distributed nShield HSMs from your local office.

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Data Sheet : payShield Manager

payShield Manager is a central management tool that lets you manage your geographically distributed payShield HSMs from your local office.

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