Changing the data security game with HPE OEM Solutions

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The data security industry has long offered two primary methods for organizations to prevent cybercriminals from stealing sensitive information—blocking access with perimeter firewalls and monitoring networks and issuing alerts if someone gets through those barriers. Billions of dollars are spent every year on these solutions, yet tens of billions of sensitive records were exposed in 2020 alone. Ed Leavens, the founder and chief executive officer of Datex, recognized the obvious: “Traditional approaches to data security aren’t solving the problem,” he notes. Instead, the team at Datex had a novel idea.

Leavens says, “If companies were to replace sensitive information in their IT environments with benign substitutes before that information arrived, there wouldn’t be anything for cybercriminals to steal even if they did breach the network.” This was the genesis of Datex’s groundbreaking data security solution, DataStealth.

The patented DataStealth platform doesn’t simply block network traffic or send out alerts in the event of a network breach. It inspects data and documents passing through DataStealth in real time. Then, based on proprietary data protection policies, it identifies information the customer deems to be sensitive and replaces that sensitive data with a variety of replacement options.

To deliver its unique data security capabilities, Datex places heavy demands on the hardware running DataStealth. As an HPE OEM partner, Datex chooses HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers. The number one reason—security. Leavens explains, “We value features like the HPE Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which allows for hardware-based random number generation, FIPS (federal information processing standard) compliance, and a process for the secure decommissioning of servers. These things give us confidence going to customers with our solution, knowing we can secure their data at every level and throughout its lifecycle”.

Performance and reliability are also essential. DataStealth scales up and out depending on the customer’s performance and redundancy requirements. Measured in milliseconds, the DataStealth platform recognizes specific data types and applies one or more data protection policies to the data in real time. The HPE hardware allows the DataStealth platform to perform hundreds of thousands of these actions per second—all day, every day.

Additionally, the OEM relationship affords Leavens and his team access to HPE labs and engineering assistance to test new capabilities before bringing them to market. “Being an OEM brings advantages we wouldn’t get otherwise,” he concludes. “If we need access to technical expertise or help with promotion in the marketplace, HPE is always there to support us.”

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Nabanita Maji
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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