I think at $450 its a bit of a tough sell. Without history it is hard to sell it on the basis of the security aspect.
Especially when something like YubiHSM [1] is $650 and has relatively good support from an API standpoint. I may be wrong, but I don't see the market for HSMs as we see them today getting bigger.
I found that when people said they wanted HSMs, when you boiled down the requirements, they really were looking for a key management system. They didn't need it to be hardware based, but had it in their mind that they provided more security.
I think that with some of the new cloud services for key/secret management and the fact you can get HSMs if you really need to (I think AWS charges like $12k/year).
Especially when something like YubiHSM [1] is $650 and has relatively good support from an API standpoint. I may be wrong, but I don't see the market for HSMs as we see them today getting bigger.
I found that when people said they wanted HSMs, when you boiled down the requirements, they really were looking for a key management system. They didn't need it to be hardware based, but had it in their mind that they provided more security.
I think that with some of the new cloud services for key/secret management and the fact you can get HSMs if you really need to (I think AWS charges like $12k/year).
https://www.yubico.com/product/yubihsm-2/