The customer was already familiar with Thales Luna HSMs which they use for their high-performance secure manufacturing, but they chose Thales Data Protection on Demand (DPoD) Luna Cloud HSM services for this use case as they wanted to leverage the cloud for its ease of deployment and use and low TCO. Knowing that only Thales Luna HSMs enable them to always remain in control of their critical code signing assets, with the flexibility to freely move those code signing keys between cloud and on-premises in a purpose-built hybrid solution securely stored in NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified hardware gave them peace of mind. Having a cloud solution supported by real hardware ensured their code was always backed up and highly available - underpinning both their security and compliance mandates.