Name: Meet Sigma: The World’s Most Advanced Instant Financial Card Issuance System
Start: 2021-01-05T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-01-05T16:00:53.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments and data protection around the globe. Today more than ever, people demand seamless, secure experiences, whether they’re crossing borders, making a purchase, or accessing corporate networks. With our unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions, it’s no wonder the world’s most entrusted organizations trust us.

Only 37% of Tier 1 and Tier 2 U.S. financial institutions offer both instant physical and digital issuance—and that’s your opportunity to lead. Those who embrace omnichannel issuance can deliver superior cardholder experiences, reduce fraud, and gain a decisive edge in the market.

Entrust’s latest Financial Trends Study uncovers what decision-makers at banks and credit unions want in cards and payments — and how you can act now to stay ahead.

Reserve your spot today to learn how to:
• Unlock omnichannel banking for your cardholders
• Shift AI-powered KYC from buzzword to boardroom priority
• Deliver a customer-centric experience across physical and digital channels

December 17 , 11 AM CST
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Explore the Future of U.S. Banking: Insights from the Entrust Financial Trends Study

Fraud is evolving faster than defenses. Attackers are scaling deepfake attacks, leveraging automation, and shifting tactics across the entire customer lifecycle. AI now drives 1 in 5 biometric fraud attempts, and injection attacks have increased 40% year over year.

Join SecureWorld’s Tom Bechtold and Entrust fraud experts Simon Horswell and Virginia Chiarentin as they reveal new global insights and share strategies to protect every identity — starting at the moment of onboarding to daily authentication. Discover what insights they reveal about fraudsters and their latest techniques.

What You’ll Learn:
- 2026 fraud patterns impacting digital businesses
- Actionable intelligence from global fraud data
- Best practices for layered identity protection

The Changing Face of Fraud: Identity Fraud Insights & Actions

Does your organization store, process, or transmit cardholder data? The latest version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has fundamentally raised the stakes with new requirements expanding beyond perimeter and storage-focused data security to a more holistic data-centric model.

Join us for a webinar to examine the recent changes to PCI DSS, what they mean for protecting critical cardholder data, and how you can simplify compliance using modern data protection techniques with a strong hardware root of trust. Our speakers will discuss how abstracting security from applications with centralized policy management and decentralized enforcement drastically simplifies compliance efforts and how delivering broad-spectrum data security can help prepare you for cryptographic agility by seamlessly adapting to new threats and operational needs over time.

Join the webinar to learn:
- The latest security requirements in PCI DSS 4.0
- Why the data-centric security model is vitally important
- Five techniques to simplify compliance with PCI DSS 4.0

Five Techniques to Simplify Compliance with HSM Root of Trust

At the Entrust Financial Innovation Forum in Malaysia, we dug into the future of finance - from secure digital onboarding to seamless payment authentication.
The energy in the room was driven by:

- Customer voices sharing real-world challenges and successes
- How innovation in identity, biometrics, and payments is reshaping trust
- The passion and collaboration across banks and fintechs eager to build what’s next

Watch this video for a recap of the event. Together, we’re shaping the future of secure financial services.

Empowering Financial Innovation for a Digital Malaysia

As the global card issuance landscape rapidly evolves, flat card technology is emerging as a strategic enabler for small to mid-sized issuers, especially in regions where cost-efficiency, durability, and personalization flexibility are paramount. Join us to discover how flat card technology is reshaping the future of card issuance, and how Entrust is helping issuers unlock new value in a competitive market. Whether you’re looking to enhance durability, reduce operational costs, or expand your design possibilities, this webinar will provide actionable insights and practical solutions tailored to your needs.

Key topics you’ll learn:
• Industry trends driving the shift from embossed to flat cards across the globe
• Real-world use cases showcasing Durable Graphics and Drop on Demand printing technologies
• Introduction to Duplex DoD Lite: Entrust’s compact, cost-effective personalization module for emerging issuers
• How to empower your organization to modernize card programs with confidence and agility

Flat Card Evolution: Empowering Small and Mid-Sized Issuers

As digital commerce accelerates across Asia Pacific, secure and seamless online payments are top priorities for leading issuers. Click to Pay addresses these challenges head-on, offering a tokenized, password-free solution that enhances security and convenience for cardholders, while helping issuers strengthen digital engagement and reduce fraud exposure.

Join Mastercard and Entrust for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving landscape of e-commerce payments in APAC. We’ll discuss the strategic value of Click to Pay, highlight key payment and fraud trends across APAC, and share practical steps for successful implementation.

Key Takeaways:
• The strategic value of Click to Pay for issuers and their customers in APAC
• Regional payment and fraud trends shaping digital commerce and mandates
• Implementation strategies for seamless enrollment and lifecycle management
• How Entrust partners with Mastercard to support issuer compliance and drive adoption.

Unlock Click to Pay Across APAC with Mastercard and Entrust

In today’s digital-first world, trust is everything. But how do organizations ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity of their most sensitive data and transactions? Enter the Hardware Security Module (HSM)—a critical yet often overlooked component of enterprise security.

Join us for this introductory webinar where we demystify HSMs and explore how they underpin secure digital transformation. Whether you're in finance, healthcare, government, or any data-sensitive industry, you'll learn:
- What HSMs are and how they work
- Why software-based security isn’t enough
- Real-world use cases across industries
- The business value of investing in HSMs—from compliance to customer trust

This session is perfect for IT leaders, security professionals, and business decision-makers looking to strengthen their security posture and gain a competitive edge.

Unlocking Digital Trust: Why Hardware Security Modules Are Essential for Modern Business

Malware groups are illegally entering businesses by posing as employees or partners, making it more critical than ever to secure your business by leveraging proper identity verification. 

This webcast looks at how identity verification, fraud prevention, and KYC compliance regulations can help offer assurance that employees are who they say they are.

Watch the webcast and learn:

How identity verification can keep your business safe by providing proper access to proper groups
How verification partners with fraud prevention 
How to secure your business before, during, or after an account takeover
Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how document verification, biometric verification, device intelligence, and the management of proper workflows can help secure your business – no matter who is attempting to access it.

Secure Your Business: Manage Who Is Accessing Company Data

Public key infrastructure – usually multiple PKIs – serves as a crucial trust anchor for data- and identity-centric security strategies. Proper architecture, governance, and thorough lifecycle assessments are essential to maintain its effectiveness. Protecting critical private signing keys is vital, as recommended by organizations such as Microsoft (for their Active Directory Certificate Services) and by the entire PKI community. Loss or theft of cryptographic keys in the examples we provide leads to massive disruption, costs, and reputation damage. 

Gain insights from two domain veterans on:
• Modern Threat Themes
• Enterprise PKI 
   - Types and use cases   
   - What could go wrong?
• PKI Best Practices
    - Laying the foundations
    - Assurance check-ins
    - The importance of an HSM root of trust

How to Optimally Construct Your On-Premises PKI

Organizations struggle with accelerating digital transformation while balancing demands of protecting corporate assets and complying with ever changing regulations.  Join us to explore how industry leaders are leveraging HSM (Hardware Security Modules) to add a robust level of security to their technology infrastructure. HSMs provide enhanced key generation, digital signing, and encryption to protect sensitive key material and the transactions that use it.

Join this webinar to explore how: 
• nShield hardware is designed to deliver scalable cryptographic services for PKI-related use cases such as digital identity authentication and encryption of sensitive communications.
• HSMs perform vital functions for Privileged Access Management, connected devices, and securing both hardware and software supply chains.
• Protecting critical infrastructure with nShield HSMs will simplify and provide valuable proof of regulatory compliance.

HSMs: Critical Infrastructure to Establish Trust and Integrity

As organizations face growing complexity and an evolving threat landscape, the need for crypto-agility and quantum-safe infrastructure is more urgent than ever. Join us for a live product showcase of Entrust’s Cryptographic Security Platform (CSP), where we’ll demonstrate how our platform empowers enterprises to manage PKI, keys, secrets, and certificates—while preparing for the post-quantum future.

In this session, you’ll see:
- Why crypto-agility is essential for quantum-safe readiness
- How CSP simplifies key, certificate, and secrets management
- How CSP supports PKI deployments with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness

This demo will show you how Entrust’s Cryptographic Security Platform (CSP) helps you stay secure, agile, and future-ready.

Future-Proof Your Security: Live Demo of Entrust’s Cryptographic Security Platform with PQ-Ready PKI

Fraudsters are smarter and work harder than ever, but they’re not the only thing financial institutions need to worry about in today’s market.

The problem? 
With digital document forgeries increasing by 244% since 2023 and deepfake fraud attempts occurring at a rate of one every five minutes (Entrust 2025 Identity Fraud Report), the cost of fraud to your business isn’t going away anytime soon; however, potential customers are more than willing to go elsewhere if their needs are not met from minute one. Taking a one-size-fits-all approach to fraud can mean treating good customers as bad actors, driving them away in the process.

In this webinar we cover:  
- Consumer attitudes toward account opening: their expectations for a great first experience and where financial institutions are not meeting those expectations
- The three types of risk profiles an FI is most likely to see in their systems day-to-day, from deepfakes to injection attacks to sophisticated synthetic identities
- Building an account opening risk experience that keeps the good customers coming through, with a layered solution powered by Entrust and Mastercard 
- Automating the account opening experience to keep your defenses up to date while removing the need for human intervention, unlocking scale and driving down internal costs

Turning fraud prevention into your competitive advantage

Crypto-agility is critical to digital security. The need to encrypt everything that we see in best practices, like Zero Trust, requires crypto-agility, as does preparing for the transition of tomorrow’s post-quantum reality. This webinar will help organizations achieve a mature crypto-agile security practice and learn to overcome the challenges to get there—from people and processes to technology.

Attendees will learn: 
- Why crypto-agility is essential
- How to assess your organization’s crypto readiness 
- Key steps to building a strong cryptographic infrastructure 
- How crypto-agility reduces risk and boosts innovation

Crypto-Agility: How It’s Both a Critical Component and a Complex Challenge

With “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attacks already targeting long-life data, organizations like hyperscalers are moving fast to implement Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) — the backbone of secure key management — must evolve to support this shift.

PQC algorithms demand more computational power, making hardware acceleration essential to maintain performance at scale. Only PQ-ready HSMs with built-in acceleration can deliver true crypto agility and help reverse today’s cryptographic sprawl.

As these algorithms mature and compliance standards tighten, the pressure on your cryptographic foundation will only grow. Now is the time to act strategically.

In collaboration with ISMG, watch industry veterans Robert Hann and David Low as they discuss why hardware acceleration for PQC should be on your radar.

In this webinar, you will learn:
- Why “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” is a real and urgent threat to your long-life data
- How PQ-ready HSMs with hardware acceleration enable crypto agility and future-proofing
- What steps to take now to prepare your organization for the post-quantum era

Protecting Your Organization’s Most Critical Assets - Are You Sure You Are Post-Quantum Ready?

In today’s digital landscape, securing sensitive data in the cloud is more critical than ever. As organizations increasingly migrate workloads to the cloud, the need for robust cryptographic key management becomes paramount. This webinar explores how Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) delivered as a Service can provide scalable, compliant, and cost-effective solutions for securing cloud infrastructure.


This Webinar will cover:


• Understand the fundamentals and benefits of HSM as a Service.
• Learn how HSMaaS enhances cloud security and compliance.
• Explore real-world use cases and deployment scenarios
• Discover how to integrate HSMaaS into your existing cloud infrastructure

Whether you're a cloud architect, security professional, or IT leader, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge to strengthen your cloud security posture using HSMaaS.

Securing your Cloud infrastructure with HSM as a Service

Digital payments are evolving—and so must your cardholder experience.
As banks and credit unions face rising consumer expectations and competitive pressure, the ability to deliver seamless, secure, and engaging payment experiences is more critical than ever. In this webinar we will discuss how Click to Pay can help financial institutions modernize their online payment methods, boost digital engagement, and drive long-term loyalty.

You’ll learn:
• Why Click to Pay is becoming essential for top-of-wallet success in e-commerce 
• How to integrate it into your cardholder journey with minimal friction
• Real-world examples of banks and credit unions enhancing their payment strategy
• Actionable insights for Heads of Cards, Payments, and Digital Banking leaders

Whether you're looking to differentiate your card offering or streamline your digital payment experience, this session will provide the strategic clarity and practical guidance you need.

Winning the Online Wallet: Strategies for Banks & Credit Unions to Compete in E-Commerce Payments

Are your customers frustrated by repetitive identity checks during your existing onboarding journey? Are high abandonment rates, complex regulations, and rising fraud risks hindering your bank's customer onboarding experience? Financial institutions face a critical challenge in balancing the rising demand for seamless customer experiences with the complexities of regulatory compliance, rising fraud risks, and evolving customer expectations. 

Join our webinar as we uncover how combining AI-powered identity verification with eIDAS Advanced Electronic Signatures (AES) transforms your digital workflows. We’ll show you how integrating these critical capabilities into a single workflow can create a smooth and efficient onboarding journey while eliminating friction and significantly mitigating risk. You'll gain insights into how a streamlined, secure, and compliant customer journey helps fuel business growth for your financial institution and achieve faster customer time-to-value.

Future-Proof Your Digital Customer Onboarding With eIDAS AES and ID Verification

During this webinar we will discuss real-world examples of ransomware attacks and emerging threat vectors, while offering practical insights into how organizations are being targeted, and how to proactively defend against them.

Future-Proofing Cybersecurity: HSMs vs. Ransomware in the Quantum Era

Meet Sigma, the newest member of our world-leading instant financial issuance solution. Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why cardholders love instant access to their cards, how instant access benefits banks and credit unions, and what makes Entrust the market leader.

Plus, we’ll show you how the new Sigma card printer is:
+Simple
We set out to make the most user-friendly financial card printer on the planet. And we thought of everything – streamlining the entire card issuance process.

+Secure
At Entrust, security is in our DNA. So it’s no surprise that our Sigma card printers are the industry’s most trusted and secure.

+Smart
Forward-thinking technology, scalability, and modularity allow you to expand your card issuance program as your needs evolve.

Meet Sigma: The World’s Most Advanced Instant Financial Card Issuance System

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