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Data Security andClimate Change
How Voltage Supports Carbon-Friendly Strategies

Data Security and Climate Change

Voltage: Sustainable, Carbon-Friendly Data Security

Climate change is a subject that is important to everyone, ourcustomers, partners, governments, and citizens around the world.
At OpenText, we aim to make sustainable and responsible businesspart of how we operate and translate that into how we deliver ourproducts—from lowering our energy consumption and waste materials
to helping our customers address their carbon footprint, adopting
carbon-friendly IT strategies, and working more sustainably.
Many organizations are setting targets to reduce the impact they
have on the environment by reducing energy usage and greenhousegas emissions. Many more are looking to their suppliers to help themachieve their sustainability targets directly through technology andindirectly through their supply chain operations.

Green Voltage: Privacy and ESG Intersection Points
to Reducing Risk and Carbon Emissions

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics refer to a setof criteria used to evaluate organizations’ sustainability and societal
impact. Data privacy is one aspect of governance often consideredin ESG evaluations. Innovative techniques for detecting, protecting,and securely sharing data can also spur reducing the environmental
impact of managing data.
In addition to data privacy, ESG evaluations may consider othergovernance factors, such as data ethics and transparency. Addressingthese ESG considerations demonstrates a commitment to responsible
and sustainable data handling and operations, which can in turn help
establish goodwill and a strong reputation with stakeholders.
Organizations that prioritize data privacy and the ethical use ofdata in their operations and policies can reap social, financial, andcompetitive advantages. Privacy-enhancing technology enables
organizations to build data-driven programs that preserve privacy
and uncover risk while establishing practices that minimize dataand support sustainability mandates.

What Is the Difference between Privacy-Enhancing
and Privacy-Preserving Technologies?

Privacy-enhancing technology (PET) refers to technologies designed
to improve privacy by reducing the amount of personal datacollected and shared. These technologies include PII detection,

de-identification, anonymization, and data minimization techniques.
The goal of PET is to reduce the risk of personal data being usedor misused in ways that could harm the user if not handled ethically.
Privacy-preserving technology (PPT) refers to a subset of Privacyenhancing technologies that offers a variety of techniques and tools
designed to protect the privacy of individuals and organizations when
they share, collect, or personally process data. These technologies areused in various contexts, including consumer privacy, data analytics,
and data lifecycle management. The goal of PPT is to ensure that
personal data remains secure and cannot be accessed or used byunauthorized parties.
Some examples of privacy-preserving technology include:• Encryption: preserves data from unauthorized use/ access orseeing the data in clear text
• Masking/Anonymization: preserves data by removing personallyidentifiable information (PII) from data sets, making it difficult totrace the data back to specific individuals• Tokenization: preserves data by replacing sensitive data with aunique, reversible token that can be used to represent the data
but cannot be used to reveal the data itself without the presenceof the token• Pseudonymization: preserves data by replacing PII with apseudonym, or fake name, that cannot be traced back to
the individual• Data minimization: preserves data by collecting and storing only
the minimum amount necessary to achieve a specific purpose,
reducing the risk of data misuse or abuse.
• Data access monitoring and controls: preserve privacy by ensuringthat unauthorized parties cannot access or use personal data.
These privacy-preserving technologies are critical to business
operations as organizations look to balance the collection anduse of customer data and their obligation to protect individuals’
personal information from being accessed, used, or shared without
their consent. They also help organizations comply with global dataprotection regulations and laws, such as the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) in the United States.

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Data Security and Climate Change

How Voltage Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Help
Customers Address Green-IT Challenges, Providing
Sustainable, Carbon-Reducing Data Security Approaches
Green Voltage—Reducing Carbon Footprints
and Accelerating Green Projects
DATA DISCOVERY

Unstructured data makes up roughly 80% of all enterprise data andcan represent high costs and risks if not managed properly. Voltage
File Analysis Suite by OpenText with Data Discovery is ideally suitedfor data cleanup and hygiene aimed at reducing redundant, obsolete,and trivial (ROT) data, ultimately driving down the energy and resources
required to manage, store, and transmit that data. By eliminating
ROT, which can represent as much as 30-50% of storage, across theenterprise, Voltage customers can reduce their carbon footprint incloud migration efforts by two metric tons of CO2 per terabyte of data.
DATA MINIMIZATION

Similarly, data minimization techniques, which involve collecting andretaining only the minimum amount necessary for a specific purpose,
can help reduce the environmental impact of data processing.
According to recent estimates, up to 30 percent of all servers in data
centers are zombie servers—consuming energy, resources, andlicenses yet carrying out little actual work. Additionally, retiring legacy
applications allows organizations to maintain compliance while
immediately reducing costs (hardware, software licenses) andenergy. The Voltage File Analysis Suite and Voltage Structured
Data Manager by OpenText provide data consolidation, application
retirement, and archiving capabilities for unstructured and structured
data that help reduce application sprawl and zombie servers by
eliminating legacy applications and infrastructure.
DEFENSIBLE DELETION AND DATA CENTER CONSOLIDATION

Defensible deletion and data center consolidation can significantly
impact sustainability programs. Consider the price of carbon @ US$51
per metric ton—that means a petabyte of data has a carbon footprintof 4,000 metric tons of CO2. In this case, that translates to a price tagof $500,000 annually just to run, manage and operate those servers.
The cost savings for data deletion are significant as well; for every
terabyte deleted, organizations can save upwards of ~$3,300/TB of
primary storage costs. Building practices around ESG combined withrobust data security principles can mitigate risk, protect critical data
assets, and improve the overall corporate privacy posture. Thesepractices can also drive bottom-line savings and support your shift
towards more sustainable, ethical business practices.

ENCRYPTION

Many organizations rely on data analytics to interpret buying patterns
and trends and gain insight into their business. However, in today’s
business environments, this is a risky venture if data is misused, lost,or stolen. Privacy-preserving techniques that de-identify or anonymize
data allow it to be used and analyzed without revealing sensitive
information about individual people. As a result, it can be a powerfultool for ensuring privacy across various market sectors, including
healthcare, finance, and retail.
Some privacy-preserving technologies, such as homomorphicencryption, require additional resources and energy to implement,
potentially increasing an organization’s carbon footprint. When evaluating the overall environmental impact of encryption technologies,
consider how Voltage SecureData Enterprise by OpenText’s FormatPreserving Encryption can run with far lower computational demands
and energy needs than alternate approaches.
SHIFTING TO PUBLIC CLOUD AND SAAS

As organizations move more and more enterprise workloads anddata to the cloud, vendors like Amazon can also help drive downcarbon emissions. A 2019 report from 451 research titled, The Carbon
Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services, foundthat moving enterprise workloads to AWS showed significant IT
operational efficiencies and carbon footprint reduction. These benefits
are mainly driven by Amazon’s use of renewable energy, energyefficient servers, and improved server utilization. Further, 451 Researchcalculations in the report showed that moving a 1-megawatt enterprisedata center (at standard 30% server utilization) to AWS can reducecarbon emissions by 400-1000 metric tons per year on average.
This trend should continue to show more potential savings due toAmazon’s renewable energy goals (80% renewable by 2024 and100% by 2030).
In a parallel trend, OpenText™ Cybersecurity solutions now offer cloudhosted SaaS deployment options, including Voltage File Analysis Suite(FAS) in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). A shift to thecloud reduces carbon emissions and improves resiliency. David Gahan,VP Cybersecurity SaaS Center of Excellence, says, “By moving ourSaaS business to the cloud, we’ve been able to reduce our carbon
footprint by retiring our legacy data centers in favour of new, moreenergy-efficient facilities. Our average utilization per computeinstance is higher in the cloud, reducing our overall energy needs.

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We waste less and do more with SaaS, doing our part to help build
a better, more sustainable future. Running Voltage FAS on the AWS
Public Cloud helps our customers take advantage of these efficiencies
at scale.”Migrating to the public cloud using renewable energy or optimizing
business processes can reduce energy consumption and contributeto reducing an organization’s carbon footprint. For organizations thatwant to avoid (or cannot) move to the public cloud, Voltage can also
help reduce their data security power consumption in various ways.

Green Voltage: Privacy-Enabling Technologies Reduce Inefficiencies, Carbon Footprint, and Energy Use
Energy Inefficiencies

Improving Them with Voltage

Compute: In many organizations, the growth of data andapplications has led to an inefficient patchwork of equipment.

Voltage supports running elastic workloads in an energy-efficient
cloud for data discovery and protection, and server consolidation
and application retirement can dramatically reduce the amount ofequipment, thus reducing energy consumption.

Storage: Understanding data can uncover even more
efficiencies in data storage.

Voltage can discover and help manage ROT data—redundant,obsolete, and trivial data across unstructured and structured
repositories. Moreover, they assist in handling misplaced, orphaned,and exposed data.

Data Management: Knowing your systems and data is astarting point for improving efficiencies.

Voltage provides data discovery tools for assessing, monitoring, andanalyzing the value of data and provides valuable insights into risk.
Classified data and risk scoring help identify what needs to be kept
and stored centrally. In addition, Voltage intelligent data management
solutions use machine learning and artificial intelligence to eliminate
the time-consuming manual work required to classify and protect
your most valuable assets. In the end, efficient data management
leads to efficient use of resources.

Security: More and more resources are needed to keepsystems secure and prevent threat actors from taking control
over IT resources. Often organizations use many different
solutions for different platforms.

OpenText Cybersecurity can offer a clear path for customers looking
to consolidate security solutions (Data Security, Security Operations,Identity and Access Management and Application Security), use fewer
resources and improve security levels.

Conclusion

Overall, organizations need to consider the environmental impactsof their operations, including the use of technology, as part of theirefforts to reduce their carbon footprint. Strong governance practices
and demonstrable social responsibilities are intangible benefits

that can build data trust with customers, employees, and otherstakeholders. Privacy-enhancing technologies from Voltage can help
find ways to balance the need for privacy compliance with the needto minimize resource usage and reduce the environmental impact of
their operations.

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Data Security and Climate Change“As a result of using Voltage data discovery, we started to find ‘unused data, unnecessary tables,
obsolete databases and even forgotten databases that contain data.’
Even with the initial iteration, we lowered our energy consumption and CO2 emissions by shutting
down physical servers, SAN switches and storage platforms. By doing this, we helped our organization
comply with our commitment to being more environmentally friendly.
Lowering the amount of processed data and consolidating the IT architecture helped us assign IT
professionals to more value-added tasks. All these contribute to a better sustainability of both humanand natural resources over longer periods of time.”
Olcay NisanoğluIT DirectorBelbim

Green IT in Action at OpenText

operations and hosting services within the Product Service Delivery
Center (PSDC): “Through this consolidation, we create more efficient
IT architectures, reduce our costs, and significantly reduce ourenvironmental impact through lower energy consumption.
Ultimately, we want to enhance our operations to provide
maximum customer flexibility.”“We reduced our energy consumption by 510 KW
and saved $3 million in annual rent and energy
costs. This further strengthens our commitment
to reduce our environmental impact.’’
Rafi Levy
Director of Service Operations and Hosting Services
Product Service Delivery Center
Micro Focus

OpenText takes its responsibility to protect the natural environment
seriously and supports its customers in doing the same. OpenText
products and services help customers reduce their carbon footprint
and adopt carbon-friendly IT strategies. Fully aware that the nonpeople related element accounts for 80 percent of its global power
consumption*, OpenText is undergoing an international data center
consolidation project, as explained by Rafi Levy, director of service

Sarah Atkinson, director of corporate social responsibility at
Micro Focus (now part of OpenText), concludes: “We are committedto helping our customers address their carbon footprint and adopt
carbon-friendly IT strategies, just like we’re doing for ourselves.
Our Cybersecurity Voltage portfolio of leading-edge solutions
is designed to help customers save costs, increase operational
efficiencies, and operate more sustainably to support our planet.”
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