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Voltage by OpenText

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What is Voltage by OpenText?

Micro Focus Voltage SecureMail (formerly HP SecureMail) is an email encryption platform based on technology acquired with Voltage Security (February 2015) by HPE and then acquired by Micro Focus in 2017.

Categories & Use Cases

Data Security at its best

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With the advent of POPIA Compliance requirements within South Africa, this tool, Voltage SecureData was able to assist in encryption capabilities, beyond this, it allowed a certain level of access of data not to be passed onto the wrong or user that might not be to "see" customer/user data. Due to the power of FPE (Format Preserving Encryption) it allowed encryption to not be bloated and could be run as a batch job runs. The capability extends across mainframe systems, which technically allows downstream applications to almost consume encrypted data for "free" This has allowed many departments to carry out housekeeping functions on their data, almost to upgrade their data hygiene. With many companies opting to have workloads moved into the cloud, this tool has allowed encrypted data to travel into the cloud and there is also a gateway functionality where it sits at the edge to search for certain keys words with would be encrypted on leaving the on-prem environment. This further allowed archived data to be moved onto slowed storage whilst once again in the event of a data breach, the data almost looks real due to the power of FPE. It is with this functionality that is really powerful.

Pros

  • Encryption
  • Format Preserving Encryption
  • Scalable
  • Simple licensing models

Cons

  • data discovery
  • managing data flows

Most Important Features

  • Zero Trust Model
  • FPE
  • Scalable across enterprise functionality
  • Mainframe capability

Return on Investment

  • Reducing storage costs
  • Voltage is a framework to manage your customer data
  • you have the ability to almost make your encrypted data output that you would want

Alternatives Considered

Thales CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification

Other Software Used

Broadcom Symantec Email Threat Detection and Response, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, ManageEngine ADManager Plus

HPE SecureMail doesn't measure up

Pros

  • Cloud-based portal making it easier to implement for smaller businesses
  • Plug ins for Outlook and Office 365 email apps to make one-button encryption easier for users to activate. For Office apps like Word et al you have a special menu that you can add users to your senders and specify access rights to encrypt your messages from within these apps.
  • An add-on utility to encrypt any sized files is part of the package. Many of its competitors have limits on email attachment size, this is a way around these limits.
  • The product does support integration with a third-party tool from Digital Guardian (https://digitalguardian.com/) for DLP features.

Cons

  • Its web-portal is pretty bare bones, unlike some competitors that are more feature-rich
  • Its documentation is also voluminous, making it hard to find something since it is spread across multiple manuals for particular features.
  • It doesn't support IMAP connections, unlike some of its competitors.

Return on Investment

  • Decided not to use the product after looking at competitors.

Alternatives Considered

Inky, Zix and Symantec Email Security.cloud