Avensus
NL

Hardware Security Modules

The root of trust for your infrastructure

After decades of experience deploying HSMs, we know that many organisations regard the HSM as their trust anchor. That makes sense: the secure storage and issuance of your most important keys belongs in certified hardware that cannot be compromised.
Platinum PartnerEntrustThales

Why Avensus

  • Trust anchor in certified hardware

    Your crown jewels (encryption keys) stored and issued inside tamper-resistant HSMs that cannot be compromised.

  • Ready for modern applications

    From (mobile) payment, PKI and DNSSEC to smart contracts, smart meters and digital signatures, all driven from a single HSM foundation.

  • Scalable for IoT, cloud & big data

    Keep control over the sprawl of keys and certificates (growing 100%+ per year) and meet regulatory requirements around encryption.

Applications

  • Payment & financial transactions
  • TLS/SSL/SSH certificate management
  • DNSSEC
  • PKI & Certificate Management
  • Digital Signatures & Trust Services
  • Code Signing & Software Supply Chain Security
  • Encryption & Key Management
  • Secrets & Machine Identity Management
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Data Integrity & Audit Trust
  • Zero Trust Architectures
  • (Multi-)Cloud Key Management BYOK, HYOK, BYOE
  • OT / IoT & Critical Infrastructure
  • Business Continuity & Exit Strategies
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography & Crypto Agility
  • Cryptographic Asset Management (CBOM)
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Why Avensus

An HSM project without surprises

An HSM sits at the heart of your security. Mistakes in design or operations are costly. We design and manage HSM environments that work on day one and still work ten years from now. Schedule a no-obligation call with one of our HSM specialists.

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  • The only Platinum partner of Entrust & Thales in NL/BE
  • Design, implementation and 24/7 operations under one roof
  • FIPS 140-2/3, eIDAS and Common Criteria certified
  • You always retain ownership of your key material

Trust anchor

If the world's most valuable data is "the new oil", and encrypting that data is considered the only future-proof security measure, then encryption keys are the new crown jewels of any organisation. Protecting them strictly in hardware is, for Avensus, a matter of course.

From the HSM as trust anchor there are many ways to encrypt data, regardless of where it resides or where it travels. As soon as keys and certificates are used widely across an organisation, reliable key and certificate management becomes unavoidable. Key management and certificate lifecycle management solutions also bring the sprawl of keys and certificates under control. Research shows that certificate volumes grow by more than 100% every year.

Encryption and key management allow all kinds of technologies to be offered securely. Familiar examples include (mobile) payment, TLS/SSL/SSH, PKI, code signing, digital passports and DNSSEC. More recent applications such as smart contracts, bring-your-own scenarios, smart meters, digital signatures and e-ticketing are simply not usable without keys.

Alongside these modern applications, we face regulation that sets requirements as well as innovations (IoT, blockchain, cloud and big data) that force us to keep asking whether current implementations are still adequate. Both drive the growing use of encryption.

Avensus designs, implements and manages HSM environments for organisations with the highest reliability requirements. We work with HSMs from Entrust and Thales as the only Platinum Partner in the Netherlands and Belgium holding the highest accreditations, and we deliver both on-premise and managed HSM solutions.

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