Feb. 6, 2009, TX - Futurex is pleased to announce that the Futurex Excrypt KMS9000 key management server supports the scalability required for major Point of Sale (POS) manufacturers as well as Encryption Service Organizations (ESO).

The Excrypt KMS9000 provides a full range of encryption key management functions including key generation, distribution, injection, deletion and tracking. This product solution securely injects encryption keys into the PIN Encryption Device (PED) of POS terminals over a secure IP network. In addition, it uses the ExcryptTM UI, the industry’s first, universal interface to host transaction processing software used in the financial transaction security for POS networks. The Excrypt KMS9000 is also ANSI x509, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and Visa PCI-DSS compliant.   

With the Futurex Excrypt KMS9000, retailers can strengthen the security of their Point of Sale (POS) terminals and ensure that sensitive credit and debit card information isn’t compromised. This gives the retailer the ability to conduct a secure way to inject encryption keys into POS terminals over a secure IP network. This greatly reduces the costs from having to send each one of their POS terminals to an off-site secure room to inject encryption keys.

 New encryption keys are frequently required when retail merchants need greater flexibility in working with their financial processing, or reset and/or upgrade a terminal. Due to Futurex’s innovative design and technology of the Excrypt KMS9000, Hypercom’s HRKS has been able to eliminate the need for off-site secure room key injections by incorporating a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to securely distribute symmetric Triple DES keys and exchange any type of data, whether it be a transaction or an encryption key.

“It’s always been the goal of Futurex to create a more secure key injection solution to help customers save time and money, and deliver the peace of mind that comes from a security design based on ANSI and Visa industry standards for remote key management,” says Brett Smith, CEO and president of Futurex.