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Recommended Software Update
Micro Focus is announcing the release of
Product: Micro Focus SecureData Appliance
Version: 6.5
Languages: English
To download version 6.5, you must select version 6.5 in the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal
The following key new features are available with this version:
- Format-Preserving Hash - provides non-reversible de-identification, supporting use cases which call for data anonymization. Voltage FPH offers one-way transformation with the strength and use case versatility of Voltage Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE), working with existing database schemas and applications without change and without disabling the use of analytics.
- Kerberos Authentication - provides end-to-end encryption/decryption using Kerberos service tickets without any sensitive authentication credentials being stored on the client, which improves the ease of installation and improves the security of the overall solution by using a big data de-facto standard authentication mechanism.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) – provides oft-requested granularity in access control based on end user roles
For more information, please check the Release Notes for this version (available from MySupport).
If you have an active support subscription for these products, please plan for downloading this version from the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal. You will need your Software Passport login and password to access the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal.
Our goal is to provide you with clear visibility into the support time-line of software products, enabling you to use this information to plan, test, and deploy new product versions. For more information, check our MySupport Software Product Lifecycle pages.
Please note that all Micro Focus SecureData Appliance customers with active support subscriptions are eligible to update to Micro Focus SecureData Appliance 6.5