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Resilient cryptographic protection for payment systems, digital banking, and secure financial infrastructure

FortifyIQ’s software and hardware IP cores deliver robust security for the financial industry, where compliance, performance, and proven resistance to physical attacks are essential. From smart cards and ATMs to blockchain infrastructure and mobile wallets, FortifyIQ enables secure deployment across all financial applications, whether in cloud environments, embedded systems, or legacy platforms.

Industry Requirements

The financial sector operates under strict regulatory and security requirements:

Global Compliance

Systems must conform to standards such as FIPS 140-3, PCI PTS, Common Criteria (e.g., AVA_VAN.5), EMVCo, and ISO/IEC 17825.

Power, Performance, and Area Efficiency (PPA)

Devices ranging from smart cards to HSMs must deliver secure cryptographic performance under severe resource constraints.

Attack Resilience

Protection against side-channel attacks (SCA) and fault injection attacks (FIA) is mandatory to safeguard cryptographic secrets and transaction integrity.

Cross-Platform Deployment

Modern financial systems span cloud-based infrastructure, chiplet-integrated SoCs, and legacy devices lacking hardware crypto.

FortifyIQ meets these requirements with validated, compliant cryptographic IP and software hardened against real-world threats.

Why FortifyIQ ?

What FortifyIQ Provides:​

  • Cryptographic IP and software validated to support PCI PIN Security, PCI PTS, and EMVCo standards.
  • Physically hardened cryptography for secure PIN entry devices, POS terminals, and payment modules.
  • Robust resistance to physical attacks (SCA/FIA) meeting FIPS 140-3 Levels 3,4 and Common Criteria AVA_VAN.5
  • Support for secure firmware authentication and lifecycle management.
Proven resistance – Based on strong patented mathematical security algorithms, FortifyIQ’s AES hardware IP is validated against up to 1 billion side-channel traces and third-party certified to AVA_VAN.5 by SGS Brightsight. Software libraries, too, meet the most demanding cryptographic standards including FIPS 140-3, PCI PTS, Common Criteria, EMVCo, and ISO/IEC 17825.

Power, performance and area optimized – Hardened cryptographic designs with minimal power, area, and latency overhead. Suited for smart cards, mobile devices, and embedded financial hardware.

Deployment flexibility – Full-stack solutions across hardware and software, with soft-macro IPs, RoT support, post-quantum readiness, and compatibility with platforms like Caliptra and OpenTitan.

FortifyIQ Solutions for
Financial Systems

Solution Category

FortifyIQ Offering

Solution Category

Software Crypto Libraries

FortifyIQ Offering

AES and HMAC-SHA2 software libraries protected against SCA and FIA, validated against over 100,000 traces. Ideal for low-cost, legacy, or mobile platforms without secure hardware

Solution Category

Hardware Crypto IP Cores

FortifyIQ Offering

Side-channel and fault-resistant IP for AES, HMAC, PKA, PQC, and more, delivering high performance with minimal power and area overhead, even in resource-constrained systems.

Solution Category

Root of Trust (RoT)

FortifyIQ Offering

Side-channel and fault-resistant cryptographic anchor IPs supporting secure boot, key management, and on-the-fly encryption/decryption. Compatible with chiplet-based SoCs and embedded devices.

Solution Category

EDA Tools for Pre-silicon Validation

FortifyIQ Offering

FortifyIQ's SCA/FIA evaluation tools provide gate-level netlist attack simulation, TVLA leakage detection, and full trace generation for certification-aligned hardware security assurance in full integration with any functional evaluation tool.

Applications
and Use Cases

ATMs and Payment Terminals

Secure PIN entry and transaction authorization with resistance to side-channel and fault injection attacks in embedded processors.

Mobile Wallets and Contactless Payment

Ensure confidentiality and message authentication in high-throughput, latency-sensitive environments using software or hardware crypto.

Blockchain and Digital Assets

Protect private keys and transaction authorization mechanisms against power analysis and fault injection in hardware wallets or custodial infrastructure.

Cloud-Based Banking Infrastructure

FortifyIQ’s pipeline cryptographic IP and software solutions protect high-throughput cloud operations, including HSM workloads, secure enclaves, and digital asset management, from side-channel and fault injection attacks. These offerings are optimized for integration into chiplets, data center SoCs, and virtualized environments that require FIPS- and CC-aligned compliance.

Smart Cards and Secure Elements

Deploy AES and HMAC-SHA2 cryptographic cores or software crypto with SCA/FIA protection suitable for certified card-grade security levels.

HSMs and Secure Enclaves

Integrate high-assurance symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic primitives validated for Common Criteria and FIPS compliance.

Online and Digital Banking

Secure boot and software crypto libraries ensure trusted execution and data protection even on legacy platforms without hardware protection.

Chiplet-Based HSMs and SoCs

FortifyIQ’s Root of Trust and crypto IP cores integrate seamlessly into chiplet designs, including on-the-fly encryption/decryption, enabling secure modular architectures with minimal compromise in power, performance, or area.

FortifyIQ’s cryptographic IP cores are built with mathematically grounded and practically validated countermeasures, ensuring high-assurance resistance to the most advanced physical attacks.

AES RAMBAM: Third-party validated to AVA_VAN.5 by SGS Brightsight, with a secure, peer-reviewed mathematical basis. Internally validated past 1 billion traces with no leakage.

AES STORM: Features a formal mathematical proof of side-channel security, offering high-assurance protection with minimal footprint. Internally validated to over 15 million traces with no leakage.

HMAC-SHA2 is based on a patented variant of the Threshold Implementation (TI) paradigm, offering strong side-channel resistance and exceeding certification requirements. Internally validated to over 100 million traces with no leakage.

Validation methodology includes:

  • Pre-silicon RTL validation using FortifyIQ’s EDA tools (TVLA leakage analysis, module/gate-level pinpointing, and gate-level netlist attack simulation)
  • FPGA and silicon post-silicon testing
  •  DPA, CPA, EMA, and fault injection (voltage, EM, clock) attacks on the design in simulation and on FPGA
  • Detection of non-invasive fault injections

 Certification support documentation is available for SESIP, Common Criteria, and FIPS 140-3.

Future-Ready Cryptography for Finance

FortifyIQ empowers financial institutions, payment solution providers, and fintech innovators to deploy cryptography with confidence, across smart cards, mobile devices, ATMs, cloud services, and chiplet-based architectures. With certifiable, high-performance IP and software libraries hardened against side-channel and fault injection attacks, our solutions protect sensitive data, enable regulatory compliance, and future-proof systems with post-quantum readiness, so your financial operations remain secure today and resilient tomorrow.

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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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