nShield Security World v13.3 Security Manual

The guide should be used by the following people:

The guide covers the following product variants:

The nShield range of products provide protection against technical and physical attacks on keys used to protect your data in use, in motion and at rest. This provides confidentiality, integrity and availability* of user data up to FIPS 140 Level 3 and Common Criteria version 3.1 revision 5 EAL 4+ (platform and version dependent) when deployed in accordance with the technical and procedural controls identified in the User Guide and Security Manual.

*Some availability threats can be mitigated by hosting a Security World across multiple Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).

As part of the security product selection process, you must determine that the functionality delivered by any candidate product meets your requirements.

The guide is advisory and its scope is limited to identifying good procedural practices for the secure operation of the product within your environment.

If there is any contradiction between the guidance that occurs in this manual and that found in either the Installation guides or User Guides then the guidance found here takes precedence.

The scope of this manual is limited to security procedural guidance. The Installation guides and User Guides documents provide guidance on how to implement the controls discussed in this Manual.