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Data Centers: Maximum Security
at Hyperscale Performance

Data center infrastructure today faces a dual mandate: deliver uncompromising performance and meet escalating security and compliance requirements. Whether securing workloads in custom SoCs, SmartNICs, accelerators, or FPGAs, cryptographic operations must be fast, scalable, certifiable, and hardened against physical attacks.

FortifyIQ pipelined, high-performance IP cores, Roots of Trust, and software crypto libraries are engineered to protect hyperscale infrastructure without compromising power, area, or latency, while meeting the most demanding cryptographic certification standards.

Your Data Center Crypto Security Challenges

High-Volume Cryptographic Workloads

Data centers process massive amounts of encrypted traffic for storage, TLS, VM isolation, and internal service-to-service communication. These operations must be offloaded to hardware without introducing latency bottlenecks or power overhead.

Certifiability Without Performance Penalty

Hyperscale infrastructure needs to meet standards like FIPS 140-3 and PCI DSS while maintaining minimal performance and area overhead. Typical hardened solutions slow down the system or complicate integration.

Latency and Power Efficiency at Scale

In hyperscale deployments, even small improvements in power and latency translate to major cost savings. Security solutions must be energy-efficient by design, not added as a tax on top of standard logic.

Protection Against Side-Channel and Fault Attacks

As data centers adopt custom silicon and high-value IP, attackers are increasingly targeting physical implementation weaknesses such as side-channel leakage or fault injection vulnerabilities, especially in cryptographic engines.

Platform and Technology Agnosticism

Your cryptographic IP must scale across ASICs, FPGAs, SmartNICs, DPUs, and accelerators, and remain portable across foundries and process nodes.

Post-Quantum Cryptography on the Horizon

Data centers will be among the first to adopt post-quantum cryptographic schemes. Transitioning must be seamless, with both classical and PQC protections built into future-ready designs.

Even in physically secured environments, side-channel and fault attacks can be launched remotely, by exploiting:

 

  • Shared CPU cache and timing channels
  • Power delivery and clock manipulation
  • Physical access to co-located systems (especially in multi-tenant environments)

 

Certifiable physical security is no longer optional, especially for custom silicon and edge-cloud convergence architectures.

Why FortifyIQ ?

FortifyIQ delivers ultra-high-throughput, physically secure cryptographic IP for cloud and data center silicon, combining unmatched performance with resistance to the most advanced real-world attack vectors.

  • Pipelined Crypto IP for Hyperscale Throughput Our AES, HMAC, and PKA cores are built for hundreds of gigabits per second throughput under pipelined execution, without relying on a separate co-processor or hardware accelerator.
  • Ultra-Low Latency and Power Consumption Cryptographic operations must be fast and efficient, and FortifyIQ delivers. Our hardened cores achieve significantly better latency and lower power usage than typical hardened or even non-hardened implementations, removing the trade-off between security and performance.
  • Soft Macros, Integration-Agnostic FortifyIQ IP is delivered as synthesizable RTL (soft macros), fully portable across foundries, technology nodes, and platforms (ASIC, SoC, FPGA). Integration requires no custom instructions or tooling; our AES and HMAC drop in exactly like standard crypto.
  • Security Proven in Hardware Our AES and HMAC cores are backed by formal mathematical security proofs and validated against side-channel and fault injection attacks (SCA/FIA) to the highest AVA_VAN.5 level. No leakage, whatever the technology.
  • CryptoBoxes and RoTs for Secure Lifecycle Management FortifyIQ offers compact, high-performance Roots of Trust (RoTs) and CryptoBoxes designed to manage secure boot, key storage, attestation, and cryptographic acceleration across cloud-grade silicon.
  • Certifiability for Cloud-Scale Compliance FortifyIQ IP is engineered for certifiability under: FIPS 140-3 (Levels 3 and 4) Common Criteria (AVA_VAN.5 / EAL4+ and higher) PCI DSS: We support certification with full documentation, test vectors, and lab-ready security collateral.
  • Post-Quantum Ready FortifyIQ supports ML-KEM (Kyber) and ML-DSA (Dilithium) and is developing full hardware IPs and software libraries with built-in SCA/FIA resistance. Contact us for roadmap access or early partner evaluation.

FortifyIQ Security Solutions for the
Data Center

Hardware Crypto IP Cores (AES, HMAC, PKA)

  • Built for speed and throughput, hundreds of Gbps under pipelined execution
  • Security-proven with Common Criteria AVA_VAN.5 resistance and formal proofs
  • Synthesizable RTL for drop-in integration
  • Power, latency, and area optimized

Post-Quantum Cryptographic
(PQC) Engines

  • Hardware and software implementations of ML-KEM and ML-DSA
  • Designed for SCA/FIA resistance, even in quantum-resilient environments

CryptoBox and Root of Trust IP

  • Full lifecycle support: secure boot, key management, attestation
  • Seamless integration into SmartNICs, DPUs, SoCs, and accelerators
  • Configurable for on-the-fly cryptographic services in multi-tenant architectures

Use Cases in the Data Center

Storage Encryption

Real-time data-at-rest encryption for SSD controllers and storage fabrics

TLS Offload & Termination

Accelerated and protected cryptographic handshake and session management

VM and Container Isolation

Hardware-backed secure enclaves with protected keys and attestation

SmartNICs and DPUs

Built-in RoTs and CryptoBoxes for tenant separation and traffic integrity

HSM Alternatives

Implement high-assurance key management without dedicated HSM hardware

Post-Quantum Readiness

PQC support for future-proofing secure services and regulatory compliance

Secure. Compliant. Future-Ready.

FortifyIQ empowers data center silicon teams with hardened, deeply pipelined cryptography that achieves hyperscale throughput while maintaining ultra-low latency and power profiles and outstanding PPA. Our solutions meet rigorous compliance and certifiability standards, protect against side-channel, fault-injection, and quantum threats, and integrate seamlessly across platforms with portable soft-macro IP,  securing today’s designs while future-proofing tomorrow’s.

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Fortify’s AES security evaluation by SGS

“Summary. The leakage analysis (Welch t-test) on over 30 million traces did not show statistically significant first- and second-order differences between trace sets with fixed and random inputs. The template-based DPA analysis, on the pseudo-random trace set for the profiling phase (15 million traces) and on a sub-set of 300k fix input traces for matching phase targeting the first-round S-box output, and template attack on ciphertext, did not indicate any potential information leakage.”

” The results for the soft IP presented in the report were obtained on the TOE which is the basic hardware implementation of the soft IP without additional levels of security (e.g. that are present in a secure silicon layout). Therefore the internal strength of the soft IP itself was evaluated. This indicates that the investigated features and parameters of the soft IP implementation should be robust against SCA and fault injection attacks in different implementations including ASIC. Nevertheless, according to the Common Criteria rules, the strength of the final composite product must be evaluated on its own.”

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