Futurex is a provider of enterprise data security technologies centered on hardware-backed cryptography. Its portfolio covers hardware security modules, key management, public key infrastructure and certificate authority workflows, application encryption, tokenization, and cloud HSM services for organizations protecting highly sensitive data and transactions.
Futurex positions its offerings for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment models, giving customers flexibility in how they secure keys, certificates, payment workloads, and connected-device trust chains. The company serves more than 15,000 organizations worldwide and is known for hardened platforms that support large-scale, compliance-driven environments across both general-purpose and payment cryptography use cases.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Futurex combines cryptographic infrastructure, cloud services, and operational support into a unified security stack. Its capabilities span key generation, storage, distribution, rotation, revocation, certificate issuance, object signing, remote key loading, application-layer encryption, and tokenization. The company supports both enterprise and payment security requirements, allowing customers to consolidate cryptographic operations while maintaining hardware-based assurance.
Futurex emphasizes interoperability through vendor-neutral APIs and broad ecosystem support. Its platform integrates with major cloud environments and a large set of third-party technologies, including services for external key management, certificate services, privileged access, database encryption, and secrets management. Futurex also provides service-led options such as key management as a service, managed key services, monitoring, audit assistance, training, and custom development.
Products and Services
- CryptoHub: Unified cryptography platform that lets organizations deploy virtual cryptographic modules for HSM, key management, PKI and CA, and infrastructure management on demand across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- VirtuCrypt: Cloud HSM and key management platform that delivers encryption, key management, tokenization, PKI and certificate authority capabilities through Futurex-hosted cloud infrastructure.
- Excrypt HSM: Futurex payment-oriented HSM family for transaction security, payment key management, PIN and EMV functions, tokenization, and related cryptographic processing, including newer Excrypt Plus and Excrypt SSP Enterprise v.2 platforms.
- Advanced Key Lifecycle: Key lifecycle management offering that automates key generation, distribution, rotation, revocation, and retirement to improve cryptographic control and compliance.
- Cloud Key Management: Hardware-backed cloud key management capability for controlling encryption keys across cloud environments while supporting data privacy, access control, and key provenance requirements.
- Payment Key Management: Payment-focused key management for secure generation, distribution, injection, and lifecycle handling of keys used in issuing, acquiring, P2PE, and related payment workflows.
- Key Distribution: Automated service for secure delivery and rotation of cryptographic keys across applications and devices, including remote distribution scenarios for POS, ATM, and IoT environments.
- Offline Root CA: Offline root certificate authority solution that isolates and protects root keys to establish a high-trust PKI foundation and preserve certificate chain integrity.
- Application Encryption: Application-layer encryption capability that embeds cryptographic protection directly into business applications, with API-driven controls and support for optimized encrypted data structures.
- Tokenization: Sensitive data protection offering that replaces live values with tokens, including hardware-backed vaultless tokenization options for regulated data environments.
- KMES Series 3: Enterprise key and certificate management platform for large-scale PKI, certificate authority operations, lifecycle automation, policy controls, and remote key management.
- Vectera Plus: General-purpose HSM designed for high-speed encryption, key management, database and application protection, PKI, and tokenization in demanding enterprise environments.
- Issuing CA: Certificate authority solution for secure issuance and lifecycle management of digital certificates for users, applications, and devices.
- IoT CA: Certificate authority offering tailored for IoT device identity, object signing, and large-scale device lifecycle security across manufacturing and field deployments.
- Futurex Managed Key Services: Managed service that handles complex key administration and key exchange activities for customers, including cloud payment cryptography onboarding and ongoing operational support.
Target Customers
Futurex primarily targets organizations with high-value, regulated, or mission-critical cryptographic workloads. Its customer base includes banks, payment processors, card issuers, acquirers, fintechs, and retailers that need secure transaction processing, payment key management, cloud payment HSM access, and strong compliance controls.
The company also serves enterprise IT and security teams that need PKI, certificate authority, application encryption, tokenization, and cloud key management for internal systems and customer-facing services. In addition, Futurex is well aligned to manufacturers and connected-device operators, including IoT and medical device environments, that require device identity, code signing, remote key loading, and lifecycle protection at scale.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Futurex has verified AWS Marketplace presence for VirtuCrypt cloud payment HSM offerings and Futurex Managed Key Services for AWS Payment Cryptography, with native AWS integration and bring-your-own-key support.
- Azure Marketplace: Futurex has verified Azure Marketplace presence for VirtuCrypt cloud payment HSM offerings, and its enterprise key management platform also supports integration with Azure Key Vault.
- Google Cloud: Futurex supports Google Cloud through Google Cloud External Key Manager integrations, enabling organizations to keep encryption keys under Futurex control while protecting Google Cloud workloads.
Key People
- Brett Smith: CEO
- David Close: Chief Solutions Architect
- Ryan Smith: Vice President, Global Business Development
- Jason Way: Vice President, Payment Cryptography Services
- Adam Cason: Vice President, Global and Strategic Alliances
- Ruchin Kumar: Vice President, South Asia
- Santos Campa: Vice President, Latin America and Caribbean
- John Doley: Vice President, Sales – Middle East
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Employees: Approximately 180
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
