Cryptographic Appliances We Support
We deploy and support a broad range of crypto appliances and secure services from leading vendors, including:
- Code Signing / TSA / OCSP Appliances – Code-signing CAs, timestamping, and revocation responders; build secure signing pipelines, enforce approval workflows, and operate high-throughput OCSP.
- Enterprise Key Managers & KMIP Servers – Central key custody (envelope encryption, tokenization, format-preserving encryption), KMIP integrations, key provenance/rotation, and cross-platform client hardening.
- Network & Data Encryptors – L2/L3/IPsec/MACsec encryptors, file/database/app gateways, tape/backup encryption, and HSM-backed transparent data encryption (TDE).
- SSH/TLS Certificate Authorities & Secrets Platforms – Machine identity (mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE), short-lived certs for workloads, secure automation, and policy-as-code for secrets.
- Cloud HSM SaaS & Dedicated Partitions – Dedicated or shared HSM instances (including DPoD-style services), tenancy/partitioning, BYOK/HYOK, cross-cloud KMS patterns.
- Payments & Retail Crypto Appliances – EMV, PIN security, TR-31/TR-34 key blocks, DUKPT, and card issuance/authorization flows.
- IoT / Embedded Key Injection & RoT – Secure key injection at manufacturing, device identity at scale, TPM/TEE/HWRoT integrations.
Support Contracts & Lifecycle Services
- Extend or Take Over Support: We can co-manage or fully assume existing vendor support contracts, align SLAs (including 24×7), and co-term renewals across estates.
- Negotiate New Contracts: Vendor-neutral advice and pricing negotiation for new appliances or capacity, including spares, RMA terms, and advanced hardware replacement.
- Operational Run Services: Health monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance tuning, capacity planning, firmware/patch management, and CMVP/FIPS posture tracking.
- Audit-Ready Operations: Key ceremonies, rotation schedules, dual control & split knowledge enforcement, immutable logs to your SIEM, and periodic access reviews.
Remediation, Upgrades & Migrations
- Remediation: Fix misconfigurations (policies, roles, partitions), shore up entropy/RNG settings, close audit findings, and implement TR-31 key blocks and strong RBAC.
- Upgrades: Plan and execute firmware/OS/driver updates, PKCS#11/CNG/JCE client refreshes, cluster re-keys, and validated-module swaps with rollback plans.
- Migrations:
- FIPS 140-2 → 140-3 module transitions with evidence packs and parallel cutovers.
- Algorithm Modernization: SHA-1/ECDSA/RSA deprecations, key-size uplifts, and PQ-readiness roadmaps.
- Platform Moves: On-prem ↔ cloud HSM, DPoD ↔ dedicated partitions, data-center relocations, and vendor-to-vendor appliance moves using provenance-preserving re-wraps.
Result: a stable, supported, and audit-clean cryptographic estate—with the right contracts, the right SLAs, and a clear path for upgrades and migrations without service disruption.