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Acquirers and Issuers can now build systems based on a PCI HSM that meet the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) the body established by the major card schemes (American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa) to improve the protection of card holder information across the global payments network and at merchant facilities. PCI HSM is the first HSM standard to be introduced to specifically address the security requirements when handling cardholder data. It is expected that PCI HSM will become the default requirement for payments-related HSMs and is already explicitly mandated in recent guidelines and encryption standards issued by the PCI SSC.

Designed specifically to secure card payment systems, payShield is a high-performance tamper-resistant security platform that protects cryptographic keys and other sensitive information such as customer PINs and cardholder data.