The global COVID-19 crisis is unlike anything in modern history a major disruptive force that has prompted an immediate response to safeguard lives. As this health crisis has continued to spread, companies around the world have worked to continue operations by establishing remote-working conditions for their employees to keep business moving. Banks and financial-services companies have had the added burden of protecting not only their employees, but also their customers while maintaining the stability of payment systems.

The Atalla Secure Configuration Assistant, also named the SCA-W, is a secure system dedicated to interfacing Atalla HSMs.

Banks have started a process of reinventing their value proposition as a highly automated and integrated platform for a continuously innovating portfolio of financial services. Payment is key to this and in the same time under threat by external market entrants. This article looks at the drivers for change and their impact on the banks’ IT and crypto architecture. It suggests 6 crucial technical features required by the crypto architecture as key enablers for a successful transition.

Changes in regulations, and the competitive landscape are disrupting the payment ecosystems. This article explains why concerted action on crypto is needed by the banks’ CEOs and CISOs.

Together with a consortium of corporate and academic partners, Utimaco has been researching "financial cloud security" since  March 1, 2014. Many results have been field-tested and became an innovative part of our product offering.

In this article, we shall explain the main benefits of using HSMs in combination with notary services/ TSA for auditing blockchains. Our intent is to provide only the main ideas and guidelines about the subject. 

The name Atalla is intimately linked with HSMs. After all, Mohamed Atalla invented the very first hardware security module in 1972. Therefore, it is not surprising that Atalla has also created a way to communicate with HSMs in a very smart way. In this article, we will discuss the Atalla Command Language.

In this article, we shall analyze the way blockchain technology can improve data protection and create a better, and smarter digital identity when used with HSMs.

Data-centric security is a general concept of software and IT architecture where the data are at the center of the system and prevail over application and network.