This problem requires large amounts of resources, qualified personnel and complex systems for the optimal management of cryptographic systems that provide solutions to it, but is there a way to reduce costs and efforts without losing effectiveness?
One of the alternatives to guarantee all the cryptographic services that your company needs from a single system, which allows you to think about a constant growth with the same availability, scalability, and effectiveness is a cryptographic server.
What is it?
A cryptographic server is a computer model designed to perform cryptographic operations efficiently and securely, making these operations available to other systems that require them. These servers are specialized in handling cryptographic algorithms, methods and protocols, allowing them to encrypt and decode data, generate and manage encryption keys, as is the case of HSM (Hardware Security Module), and authenticate the identity of users, among other functions related to information security.
In the financial industry, cryptographic servers must also ensure continuous availability of their services, even at times of high use of different products or services, ensuring compliance with international standards and regulations and helping to maintain efficient management of the same; check the various methods of payment authentication such as PIN, CVV, inter alia; incorporate each and every one of the hardware and software tools without creating redundancies in the system and, of course, allow full security of all operations carried out in payment environments.
What are the functions of a cryptographic server?
- Key generation and management: A cryptographic server is responsible for generating and storing secure cryptographic keys. These keys are essential for data encryption and decryption. The server ensures the random and secure generation of keys, as well as their protected storage from unauthorized access.
- Cryptographic processing: The cryptographic server performs cryptographic operations efficiently and quickly. This includes encrypting and decrypting data using robust and secure cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms transform the original data into a scrambled data and then decrypt it using the key that applies to the data.
- Authentication and digital signature: Cryptographic servers can also authenticate the identity of users and guarantee data integrity by means of digital signatures. In this case, the server creates a unique and verifiable signature attached to the data. This signature allows recipients to verify the authenticity of the sender and the integrity of the information.
- Tokenization: One of the most important tasks of a cryptographic server nowadays with the boom of digital payments. Tokenization is the replacement of the data to be protected by a unique code that does not represent sensitive information when performing a financial transaction. It is the perfect mechanism to ensure ease and security in digital payment environments.
- Physical and digital protection: Cryptographic servers must be protected both physically and digitally to ensure data security. This involves using physical security measures, such as placing servers in rooms with restricted access, as well as implementing access controls and protection measures in the software and operating systems used.
The benefits of these cryptographic servers are extensive: beyond securing your information, an efficient server will allow you to authenticate and verify the identity of users and devices that wish to access your data; detect unauthorized alterations to the data; comply with international regulatory standards; generate an environment with
privacy and confidentiality for your users and data; and resist different types of attacks generated today through cybercrime.
At a critical time for the integrity of your organization’s data, cryptographic servers play a vital role in providing an additional layer of security to protect it. They guarantee the integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity of data in payment environments and allow you to manage a single, complete system for this purpose.
The cryptographic server that we developed in CLAI PAYMENTS® Technologies, works with continuous availability, speed in the processes and scalability that will allow you to integrate your cryptographic hardware with your administrative software, in addition to having the capabilities of our allied IBM® i platform allowing you to have a security system prepared to cover all your cryptographic needs, either in the cloud or on-premises.
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