Case Study: K.U. Leuven achieves data-centric security for analytics and fraud detection with OpenText Voltage SecureData

NetIQ Identity Manager provides flexibility, automation, and integration capabilities to create a SSO environment for 120,000 students and staff

A leading Canadian provider of business processing services needed to give analysts, data scientists and QA teams broader access to sensitive payment and PII data for analytics and testing while remaining compliant with strict regulations (SOX, PCI). Their fully virtualized, Hadoop/Hortonworks environment ruled out isolated systems and one-way masking, so they required a data-centric approach that preserved usability for analytics without exposing plaintext data.

They deployed OpenText Voltage SecureData Enterprise with format‑preserving encryption and stateless key management, integrated by OpenText Professional Services. The solution kept data encrypted end-to-end on Hadoop, enabled searchable/matchable analytics and secure testing, improved fraud-detection insights, supported disaster recovery and high availability, and accelerated access for product managers and data scientists — all while maintaining compliance and controlling TCO.

K.U. Leuven

Leen Van Rentergem

Manager ICT Services