San Antonio, Texas – October 10, 2024 – Futurex, a global leader in enterprise data security, won the "Encryption: Data Protection Solution of the Year" award in the international CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program for its CryptoHub HSM and data protection solutions.
Futurex's innovation has gained the trust of major global brands, including dozens of Fortune 100 companies, including many of the world’s largest banks, and all five of the largest payment processors.
Why CryptoHub Received the Data Protection Solution of the Year Award? 
“CryptoHub revolutionizes encryption management with a unified, scalable, and future-proof solution that addresses cybersecurity's evolving challenges. Consolidating all cryptographic functionalities into a single platform eliminates the need for multiple disparate systems, specialized knowledge, and costly integration and maintenance professional services,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough.
“CryptoHub from Futurex serves as a cornerstone of trust and security, empowering organizations to navigate modern cybersecurity complexities with unmatched control, visibility, and agility, and offering a holistic view of all cryptographic assets and operations. It’s a unified platform that ensures unmatched efficiency.”
CryptoHub is the only solution in the industry that combines hardware security module (HSM), enterprise key management, PKI and certificate authority, and data protection into a single platform.
By consolidating all cryptographic functions with modular, on-demand deployment, CryptoHub eliminates the need for multiple systems, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and minimizing the attack surface associated with legacy multi-vendor setups.
Core Differentiators of Futurex's CryptoHub
- Unified Cryptographic Ecosystem: CryptoHub integrates general-purpose and payment HSMs, PKI, certificate authority, key management, data protection, digital signing, and cloud key management into one cohesive solution. This integration simplifies encryption management and provides robust security across all applications.
- Advanced Security and Compliance: CryptoHub meets validation standards such as FIPS 140-2 Level 3, PCI DSS, PCI HSM, RESTful, PKCS #11, MS CNG, Java, OpenSSL, and Payment APIs, offering top-tier encryption.
- Post-Quantum Ready – CryptoHub supports the latest post-quantum cryptography (PQC) encryption standards; FIPS 203-Kyber (ML-KEM), 204-Dilithium (ML-DSA), and 205-SPHINCS+ (SLH-DSA), to future-proof your security against quantum threats.
- Scalability and Dynamic Provisioning: CryptoHub supports flexible deployment options, including on-premises appliances, containerized cloud instances, and VirtuCrypt SaaS solutions hosted in secure global data centers.
- On-Demand Flexibility and Automation: CryptoHub's modules allow for seamless on-demand deployment and management of cryptographic functions.
- Operational Efficiency: CryptoHub removes the need for products from multiple vendors, specialized expertise, and costly integration services. Its unified platform delivers exceptional efficiency, with a deployment engine 90% faster than competitors.
David Close, Chief Solutions Architect at Futurex, said, "We have achieved several industry firsts, including developing the first integrated general-purpose and payment HSM, supporting true HSM multitenancy with scalability to 75 virtual HSMs per host, and introducing the first cloud/SaaS HSM solution.”
"Now, with CryptoHub, we provide the first unified all-in-one HSM solution. These accomplishments highlight our commitment to delivering customer-focused solutions and leading the industry."
The mission of the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of information security categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Application Security, Identity Management and many more. This year’s program attracted thousands of nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world.
“CryptoHub revolutionizes encryption management with a unified, scalable, and future-proof solution that addresses cybersecurity's evolving challenges. Consolidating all cryptographic functionalities into a single platform eliminates the need for multiple disparate systems, specialized knowledge, and costly integration and maintenance professional services,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough.
“CryptoHub from Futurex serves as a cornerstone of trust and security, empowering organizations to navigate modern cybersecurity complexities with unmatched control, visibility, and agility, and offering a holistic view of all cryptographic assets and operations. It’s a unified platform that ensures unmatched efficiency.”
The Security to Trust. The Freedom to Do.
Futurex envisions a future where cybersecurity is seamlessly embedded. CryptoHub empowers organizations to address modern cybersecurity challenges with control, visibility, and agility, providing a holistic view of all cryptographic assets and operations.
CryptoHub transforms encryption management by offering a unified, scalable, and future-proof solution that meets the evolving demands of cybersecurity. Futurex remains at the forefront of the industry, setting new standards for encryption worldwide.
About Futurex:
For over 40 years, Futurex has been an award-winning leader and innovator in the encryption market, delivering uncompromising enterprise-grade data security solutions. Over 15,000 organizations worldwide trust Futurex to provide groundbreaking hardware security modules, key management servers, and cloud HSM solutions.
Futurex is headquartered outside of San Antonio, Texas, with regional offices worldwide and over a dozen data centers across five continents, Futurex delivers unmatched support for its clients’ mission-critical data encryption and key management requirements.