# HPE Security

> HPE Security - Data Security is the historical name associated with Voltage Security, the Stanford-born encryption company acquired by HP in 2015. Its technology protects sensitive fields through encryption, tokenization, and key management while retaining formats useful to existing applications. Following the HPE Software merger into Micro Focus in 2017 and OpenText’s acquisition of Micro Focus in 2023, Voltage continues within OpenText’s data security portfolio.

- **Founded:** 2002
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, United States (historical HPE Security - Data Security listing)
- **Founders:** Guido Appenzeller (Co-founder and founding CTO), Rishi Kacker (Co-founder), Matt Pauker (Co-founder), Dan Boneh (Co-founder and cryptography researcher)
- **Products:** Voltage SecureData Servers, Voltage SecureData Payments, Voltage SecureData Sentry, Voltage SecureData z/Protect, Voltage Data Security Platform
- **Notable:** Stanford BASES business-plan competition winner among 60 entries, according to a 2005 account., NIST published the FF1 format-preserving encryption method in SP 800-38G in 2016; the current product uses AES FF1., Epicor reports a seven-week production rollout using Jumpstart services.

## Products & services

- **Voltage SecureData Servers** — Field-level encryption, tokenization, and policy-controlled key access for enterprise data; marketed within OpenText Data Privacy and Protection.
- **Voltage SecureData Payments** — Payment-data encryption and tokenization for merchants, processors, and software providers.
- **Voltage SecureData Sentry** — Intercepts application traffic to protect sensitive fields in supported SaaS, packaged, and proprietary applications.
- **Voltage SecureData z/Protect** — Data protection for IBM z/OS mainframe environments.
- **Voltage Data Security Platform** — Sensitive-data discovery, classification, risk analysis, and governance across data estates.
- **Voltage SecureData for Snowflake (AWS Edition) 1.0** — Cloud-native integration for protecting data and controlling access in Snowflake.
- **Voltage SecureMail** — Historical identity-based encrypted email product; OpenText’s lifecycle table lists it as sustaining and directs customers toward Core Email Encryption.

## Achievements

- Stanford BASES business-plan competition winner among 60 entries, according to a 2005 account.
- NIST published the FF1 format-preserving encryption method in SP 800-38G in 2016; the current product uses AES FF1.
- Epicor reports a seven-week production rollout using Jumpstart services.
- An unnamed global logistics customer reports completing a large-scale legacy tokenization migration in 12 months.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Research snapshot: OpenText’s live lifecycle table lists SecureData Appliance 26.2.1 as current. This is an observation date, not a release announcement.
- **2025-09** — Security Target documentation for Voltage SecureData Appliance 7.0.2 dated September 5, 2025 is publicly available from TrustCB.
- **2023-01** — OpenText completed its acquisition of Micro Focus, bringing the Voltage business into OpenText.

## Links

- Website: https://www.opentext.com/products/data-privacy-protection-foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hpe-security-data-security/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/voltagesecurity
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VoltageUnplugged
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Voltage-Security/121405037048

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Last updated: 2026-10-25