The Secure Transaction Cloud (STC) solutions offer NFV based virtualized, advanced security for payment applications enabling transaction transport, routing, and switching with specific Virtual Network Functions (VNF) for security, specifically with TLS Acceleration for supporting multiple payment transaction protocols-based transactions, P2PE, Tokenization, Host Interfaces etc. The virtualized capabilities allow the solution to support a wide range of cipher suites with robust encryption algorithms and long length key cryptographic schemes for security together with advanced hash mechanism for the best in industry security and high-speed acceleration using virtualized cloud native HSM offering PCI standards compliant security and Smart API integration. TLS acceleration enables high speed handling for multiple payment types including Internet payments, mobile payments, POS based transactions which are IP/Mobile access based, ATM transactions, and all forms of eCommerce, mCommerce payments.