About SecureKey Africa:
Securekey Africa (Pty) Ltd is a specialist and highly experienced Data Protection, Cryptographic and Digital Signature solution provider based in South Africa and Mauritius. We provide high end cryptographic hardware solutions (HSM’s) together with state of the art Secure Digital Document Signing Solutions.
Our Mission:
To provide our clients with the best possible service and advice as well as state of the art solutions and associated support and professional services. To serve our clients with distinction, integrity and the levels of trust and confidentiality required in this critical aspect of their business.
About Us
SecurekeyAfrica provides high quality cryptographic and electronic signature solutions to entities for which data security and data privacy is an essential, non-negotiable part of their existence.
Because of compliance regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, and state privacy, strong encryption and proper key management, can mean the difference between a public breach notification and having a safe harbour. While end-to-end encryption is used in the payment industry to secure online payment systems, the more secure method of transmitting transaction information in the payment industry is point-to-point encryption or P2PE. Point-to-point encryption is designed and regulated by the PCI Security Standards Council to maximize the security of sensitive information used in payment transactions.
We at SecurekeyAfrica have partnered with one of the world’s leading market leaders in the crypto hardware space to deliver top quality products and technologies such as blockchain encryption and EMV processing. Boasting a combined 16 years of encryption-specific experience the founding members have acquired a solid knowledgebase of the relevant cryptographic products and solutions and their capabilities to offer a world-class capability to assist our customers in understanding and defining requirements and acquire the best in class equipment and solutions and implement them correctly, the first time around.
We also took the bold step to move into a paperless and fully digitised environment. Often it is found that the effort involved to move paperless ends up in the company using more paper. Now we have a truly remarkable way to ensure that going paperless means you never need to go back. We help organisations to move away from paper-based documents and electronic signatures to modernise the way they work through the application of a certificate-agnostic cryptographic digital signature workflow platform that caters for all their needs. What’s better than a digital signature, its being able to sign anywhere, any time and on any device. We can help you to make the transition!
Our objective is to provide cryptographic devices and security solutions to forward thinking customer that pride themselves in protecting their data
Frans Marx - Chief Executive Officer
Frans Marx is an experienced all-rounder in technology sales and business environment and was until recently fulfilling the role of business development manager for date protection and encryption technologies for well-known listed corporate.
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He was responsible for the growth of his sales channel from around R40m to over R61m in one year. Prior to this role he was the country manager and channel director for NASDAQ listed company where he successfully drove marketing business, business development and sales into the territory. Frans’ experience was accumulated over a 25-year period and multiple exposures in enterprise scale environments.
Herman Kriel – Chief Operations Officer
Herman Kriel started his career in cryptology environment where he progressed into an advisory role for key customers regarding information security best practise, overall compliance, and the application of data protection solutions.
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Brian Mabuya - Chief Technology Officer
Brian Mabuya is specializing in cryptography. He started his IT career in 2008 with Gijima Technology People as a Field Service Engineer in Microsoft technology projects to corporates such as ABSA, FNB and SARS to name a few.
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During 2014 Brian joined Altech Card Solutions to specialize in hardware encryption products as a product specialist. His primary function included the setup, configuration and support of Hardware Security Modules (HSM) in Financial institutions for ATMs and Point of Sale (POS) transactions.
Over the years Brian was involved in multiple projects where he implemented hardware security solutions for various organizations including Banks, Network Service Providers (NSP) and Government Departments both in South Africa and various countries in Africa. He was also responsible to lead and support the Barclays / ABSA technology split in the Cryptography portfolio, analyzing and highlighting any potential risk during the split. Recently Brian moved to form part of the Securekey Africa executive team where he is co-responsible to provide consulting, deployment and implementation of cryptographic solutions and services.
SecurekeyAfrica provides payments encryption hardware
SecurekeyAfrica provides high quality cryptographic and electronic signature solutions to entities for which data security and data privacy is an essential, non-negotiable part of their existence.
SecurekeyAfrica provides payments encryption hardware with a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 capability as well as technical support services to any institute that wishes to do business in the payments space. To understand the requirements for the payments ecosystem, one needs to understand it a little bit better.
Because of compliance regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, and state privacy, strong encryption and proper key management, can mean the difference between a public breach notification and having a safe harbour. While end-to-end encryption is used in the payment industry to secure online payment systems, the more secure method of transmitting transaction information in the payment industry is point-to-point encryption or P2PE. Point-to-point encryption is designed and regulated by the PCI Security Standards Council to maximize the security of sensitive information used in payment transactions.
We at SecurekeyAfrica have partnered with one of the world’s leading market leader (Thales eSecurity) in the crypto hardware space to deliver top quality products and technologies such as blockchain encryption and EMV processing. Boasting a combined 16 years of encryption-specific experience the founding members have acquired a solid knowledgebase of the relevant cryptographic products and solutions and their capabilities to offer a world-class capability to assist our customers in understanding and defining requirements and acquire the best in classequipment and solutions and implement them correctly, the first time around.
Our objective is to provide cryptographic devices and security solutions to forward thinking customer that pride themselves in protecting their data
We also took the bold step to move into a paperless and fully digitised environment by partnering with SigniFlow.
Often it is found that the effort involved to move paperless ends up in the company using more paper. Now we have a truly remarkable way to ensure that going paperless means you never need to go back. We help organisations to move away from paper-based documents and electronic signatures to modernise the way they work through the application of a certificate-agnostic cryptographic digital signature workflow platform that caters for all their needs. What’s better than a digital signature, its being able to sign anywhere, any time and on any device. We can help you to make the transition!
SigniFlow is digital signature workflow software that enhances and fully digitises any process that requires a document to be signed or approved. SigniFlow digital signatures utilises the latest integrated personal X.509 digital certificate technologies to sign documents and embed authentication. User accounts, private keys and digital certificates are centrally created, stored and managed in our world-class PKI with highly secure FIPS140-2 Level-3 infrastructure.
Our objective is to provide cryptographic devices and security solutions to forward thinking customer that pride themselves in protecting their data
Managed Services
REDUCE OVERHEAD COSTS THROUGH OUR DARKROOM SERVICES
In today’s world, organisations are often spending more than half their operating costs on human capital alone that is needed to support and manage their expensive and critical environments. Resources are often hard to come by especially if the environments are highly technical and requires suitably qualified staff which just drives your cost up even more. That can now change as not only do you not need to find those scarce skilled resources and try to retain them, you can now focus on what is more important, keeping the business going.
We can take some of the burden from our customers by providing you with an HSM support solution that are tailor made for your operations and suit your requirements.
Environmental monitoring made easy. With our team of highly skilled operators, backed by Thales qualified engineers we are able to monitor your critical HSM environment for any deviations that might occur, relating to issues such as undue idling, maximum capacity rate, overclocking and even environmental changes that might have an impact on how your HSM’s operates. Our security teams is able to perform all tasks remotely, outside of your data centers and offices thereby reducing costs and delivering greater operational efficiency.
Worried about a faulty HSM? Our team of dedicated staff will be able to pick up on any anomalies on the HSM’s and report it to the technical team who will immediately investigate and correct such anomalies or report it to you for follow-ups to be done.
Let our team of HSM experts help manage your environment remotely. This is achieved through a secure connection to your HSM underpinned by smart card access control that enables us to perform key management, security configuration and software/license updates to be carried out, you don’t even need to be involved.
Some of the key benefits that you can look forward to through our support includes:
The reduction in operating costs by eliminating the need to manage HSMs inside data centers
Providing a 24 x 7 management service even when local physical access to HSMs is not available
Implementing and following a convenient method for ongoing monitoring checks by our qualified staff
Easy scalability to support a large estate of HSMs deployed across multiple locations
Seamless operations within the boundaries of your VPN, anti-virus software and firewalls
Other PCI required tasks such as Key migration that are not performed on a frequent basis are often seen as a mammoth task. Securekey Africa has the expertise and experience to help you through these tasks to ensure that you remain PCI compliant but at the same time also allow you to focus on business. Our Engineers have the necessary security clearances to comfort you in the knowledge that you have a trusted partner that will stand by you and support you in dealing with the “backbreaking” tasks.
HMMAS
HSM Monitoring & Management as a Service – Monitoring and management of your cryptographic hardware
Continuous tracking of cryptographic hardware performance, individually and in groups/clusters
Capacity overload warning in advance
Experienced Security Engineers
Learn from our first-hand experience. We have decades of combined experience.
Consider us part of your extended team
Specialist Skills
Your team is already stretched to its limits, balancing the challenges stemming from the need for a broad range of general skills with the requirement for specialist skills. SecureKey Africa can be your specialist. We can monitor your crypto environment around the clock.
Expert Advice
Receive expert advice in managing configurations, changes and migrations. We can co-ordinate change windows out-of-hours and across different time zones
Support
Perpetual: Many Thales products are licensed on a perpetual basis. Corresponding Support Plans for perpetual products/software are sold on a fixed-term basis (e.g., typically in twelve (12), twenty-four (24), or thirty-six (36) month increments, renewable thereafter).
The initial purchase of a Support Plan for products is referred to as “New Maintenance/Support”. Support Plans that are purchased after the initial New Maintenance/Support is referred to as a “Renewal”. The Support Plan term that is purchased will be identified on your Support Certificate. Support Plan agreements should be renewed before the expiration of the existing term to avoid access interruption to Support Plan benefits and any reinstatement fee charges.
