Patent ID: 11575508

Abstract:
Methods and systems for unified HSM and key management services are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, an encryption service request is issued by a client instance to a key management service (KMS) logic in a KMS cloud instance. The KMS logic parses the request to verify authorization for the request, identify the instance ID, and provide additional information to the request needed by hardware security management (HSM) middleware and hardware. A router receives the request from the KMS logic and routes the request to a service based on the instance ID, that transfers the request to HSM middleware. The HSM middleware parses HSM type from the request, translates the request to HSM vendor-specific instructions and routes the translated request to an HSM. The HSM according to certain embodiments is in a cloud computing environment separate from the KMS cloud instance, and in some embodiments the HSM is on-prem at a physical client site.