OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights (Voltage) Powers Data Privacy
Australian organisations must now balance innovation with stricter Privacy Act (1988) rules, updated in 2024–2025, using advanced privacy-enhancing technologies.
Benefits
Privacy compliance
- Identify and manage sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) across your data estate
Advanced privacy-enhancing technology
- Act on data during discovery to accelerate decision-making and build data trust
Beyond compliance
- OpenText supports data minimisation, secure analytics, lifecycle governance, and sustainability goals
Australia's updated Privacy Act demands more than basic compliance. As rules tighten and public expectations rise, organisations must rethink how they manage sensitive data. OpenText™ Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights (Voltage) helps address these challenges with advanced privacy-enhancing technologies that turn risk into resilience.
The most secure information management platform
By combining the strengths of OpenText Content Management and OpenText Cybersecurity, organisations gain access to the most secure information management platform in the market. This integrated approach ensures that sensitive data is not only well-governed and discoverable but also protected against evolving cyberthreats—across its entire lifecycle.
Together, these capabilities deliver:
- Unified governance and security across content and data.
- Persistent protection from creation to deletion.
- Resilience against breaches, insider threats, and regulatory non-compliance.
- Confidence in data integrity, availability, and ethical use.
Aligning with Australia's privacy principles
The Privacy Act 1988, as amended, introduces new rights and responsibilities, including:
- The right to access, correct, and delete personal information.
- Stronger protections for children's data and automated decision-making transparency.
- Obligations to minimise data collection, limit retention, and safeguard cross-border data transfers.
- A new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy and enhanced OAIC enforcement powers.
OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights helps organisations operationalise these principles through:
Cross-border data transfers and sovereignty
Australia is introducing a "white list” mechanism for international data transfers, requiring stronger due diligence on overseas data handling and clear documentation of data flows and processing locations. OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights supports compliance with data privacy, residency, and cross-border data transfer requirements by enabling data sovereignty enforcement through sovereign cloud infrastructure deployed in region. It enhances regulatory alignment through regulation-specific PII detection, tagging, and system-of-origin tracking, ensuring that personal data is identified, governed, and appropriately restricted or transferred based on jurisdictional rules. Mitigating measures, such as privacy-preserving technologies (e.g., encryption, anonymisation), are applied to reduce transfer risks, while built-in compliance reporting provides transparency and auditability across data flows.
Privacy-enhancing and privacy-preserving technologies
- PII detection and classification: Discover and classify personal and sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources.
- Anonymisation and de-identification: Reduce identifiability of individuals while retaining data utility for analytics.
- Encryption and access controls: Protect data at rest, in motion, and in use, ensuring only authorised access.
- Data minimisation and retention governance: Collect only what's necessary, retain only as long as needed, and dispose of data defensibly.
- Clean document renditions for GenAl pipelines: Automatically generate redacted, structured, and context-aware versions of documents that are optimised for ingestion into generative AI workflows-ensuring privacy, compliance, and data quality.
Building privacy-first resilience for critical infrastructure
As Australia strengthens its national cybersecurity posture, data privacy, and infrastructure resilience are converging as dual priorities under regulatory and operational mandates. The Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act and ACSC's Essential Eight framework are now integral to how organisations—particularly those in sectors such as healthcare, finance, energy, and telecommunications—manage and secure their data.
OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights empowers critical infrastructure providers to meet these standards by integrating data privacy-by-design into their security strategy and helps shift from a reactive to proactive maturity. Proactively discovering, classifying, and governing sensitive information—particularly personal and operational data—enables organisations to embed privacy principles while addressing Essential Eight priorities, such as restricting administrative privileges, implementing multi-factor authentication, and managing application patches and configurations.
OpenText's strength is helping customers understand and manage data. OpenText is the ideal partner for supporting critical infrastructure mandates, augmenting risk management programs and bridging operational technology and IT environments.
With a unified platform, OpenText supports Essential Eight strategies through persistent protection of sensitive data, lifecycle management for compliance and recovery, and automated anomaly detection to bolster threat response. These capabilities not only meet privacy obligations under the Privacy Act and ISO 27701, but also establish operational resilience demanded by Australia's evolving security landscape.
Key use cases mapped to Australian privacy obligations
Right to delete: [trash can emoji] [document emoji]
Business purpose: [briefcase emoji]
Data minimisation: [magnifying glass emoji]
Data protection: [shield emoji]
Data portability: [mobile phone emoji]
The OpenText Data Discovery & Risk Insights governance framework
- Govern: Apply lifecycle policies, automate defensible deletion, and respond to DSARs and Notifiable Breach Schemes.
- Monitor: Track data access, detect anomalies, and enforce rights.
- Discover: Build a data inventory with context-aware discovery of PII and sensitive data.
- Insight: Visualise risk, assign business purpose, and prioritise remediation.
- Protect: Enforce persistent protection, privacy by design, and data sovereignty.
A platform driving business outcomes beyond compliance
Secure cloud analytics
Enable privacy-preserving analytics across platforms like Snowflake®, Google BigQuery™, and Microsoft® Azure Synapse Analytics using protected data.
Financial risk visibility
Quantify the economic impact of data risk and inform cyber insurance strategies.
Sustainability and green IT
Reduce storage and energy consumption by eliminating unnecessary data and modernising legacy systems.
Standards alignment
OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights supports compliance with national and state-based privacy regulations along with ISO 27701, the privacy extension of ISO 27001, through capabilities such as:
- Privacy impact assessments
- Ethical records of processing
- Data minimisation and deletion
- Data portability and protection
OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights provides a comprehensive, privacy-enhancing solution aligned with Australia's modernised privacy regime. When combined with OpenText Content Management and OpenText Cybersecurity, it delivers the most secure and trusted information management platform available—empowering organisations to reduce risk, build trust, and unlock value from data—ethically and sustainably.
