2026 Payment Security Trends: New Threats, New Controls, and the Strategies That Matter

2026 is a turning point for payment security – as regulatory standards, operational priorities, and cryptographic deadlines collide, threat activity accelerates, forcing payment teams to rethink how they plan, test, and protect every transaction. 
 
With transaction volumes rising and cloud services accelerating, payment teams face even greater pressure. This webinar breaks down where to focus, what to update first, and how you can enter 2026 with confidence. 

Why This Matters Now 

Payment HSMs, general-purpose cryptography, and key management now run on shared infrastructure and SLAs. Treating payment cryptography as a stand‑alone stack increases cost, slows projects, and complicates audits. 

Auditors now expect consistent controls, documented rotations, clean TR‑31 key block usage, and proven multi‑region recovery. Manual updates and quick fixes can’t deliver the crypto-agility needed in 2026.  

Leading organizations are closing gaps and migrating from legacy HSMs, future-proofing their systems instead of merely patching over major problems.

What You Will Learn on February 3rd:

• How 2026 payment security timelines affect HSM, key management, and audit roadmaps.  

• 2027 PCI PTS v5 expiration, what it really means, what changes (and doesn’t), and how organizations should plan without panic or unnecessary hardware refresh.  

• Where PCI PIN, TR-31, TR-34, remote key injection, and PQC readiness intersect in real projects. 

• How to evaluate on-premises, cloud HSM, and hybrid deployment options for payment workloads. 

• How to identify and remove common bottlenecks in payment key management, clustering, and disaster recovery. 

• A proven approach for building a crypto-agile payment security plan without disrupting current operations. 

Highlights 

• Top 5 2026 payment security trends that change how you run payment cryptography day-to-day. 

• Example architectures that combine payment and general-purpose cryptography while staying within PCI scope. 

• 10 questions to ask before migrating your payment HSM. 

• Guidance on when to keep HSM operations in-house, when to use cloud services, and how to define responsibilities. 

Who Should Attend 

This webinar is ideal for security professionals, compliance officers, IT leaders, and decision-makers in the payments industry. You will gain insights into overcoming 2026 cloud HSM challenges and leave with practical steps to apply immediately to your security infrastructure.

FAQ 

Q: We already passed our last PCI assessment. Why focus on 2026 now? 
A: New PIN, POI, and key management expectations tighten audit cycles and shorten lead times for hardware refresh, clustering, and TR-31 or TR-34 adoption. Decisions you make in the next 12 months will decide how easy your next assessments are. 

Q: Does this session apply if we use a cloud payment HSM provider? 
A: Yes. We cover shared responsibility models, how to read provider attestations, and how to align internal controls with various deployment offerings, ensuring you maintain clear ownership of keys, policies, and audit evidence.