Nov 10, 2020   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

OpenText brings Digital Investigation to the Cloud with Microsoft Azure

OpenText(TM) EnCase solutions are now certified on Microsoft Azure

WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText(TM) (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), today announced OpenText(TM) EnCase Forensic and OpenText(TM) EnCase Endpoint Investigator are now certified on Microsoft Azure. With OpenText Encase solutions in the cloud, law enforcement and corporate investigators can more easily collaborate, enhance evidence processing, investigate in cloud environments, and adjust more quickly to the needs of a remote workforce.

"Industries, employees, and even criminals across the world are embracing new ways to work," said OpenText Chief Product Officer Muhi Majzoub. "Digital forensic investigators need to be just as agile. OpenText supports the investigators at the frontlines, finding the digital evidence needed to seek justice or respond to a cyberattack. Embracing the power, scale, and efficiency of the cloud will help digital investigators be more effective."

OpenText worked to support Microsoft's focus on public safety and justice to bring the benefits of Microsoft Azure - efficiency, power, and scalability - to OpenText EnCase solutions for digital investigations. Additional EnCase security solutions will be available on Azure.

"Microsoft is dedicated to delivering solutions to help public safety and justice organizations increase the safety of people and the security of the communities they serve," said Kirk Arthur, Senior Director of Worldwide Government Industry, Microsoft. "Public sector, enterprise, and law enforcement organizations are beginning to take advantage of the scale, enterprise-grade security, and high availability of Microsoft Azure. We are pleased to see OpenText bringing the advantages of Azure to digital investigators all around the world."

OpenText EnCase Forensic and OpenText EnCase Endpoint Investigator in Azure bring four core benefits of the cloud to law enforcement and enterprise investigators immediately:

    1. Efficient, secure collaboration - Investigators can now tap into the
       power of  Azure to quickly and easily share case data for better
       collaboration with other stakeholders via OpenText(TM) EnCase Evidence
       Viewer - an application that enables secure access to case data for
       outside consulting.
    2. Enhanced evidence processing - Digital investigations often require
       analysis of terabytes of data. Traditional endpoints have hardware
       limitations, and processing evidence in extremely high volumes can cause
       unwanted delay. Investigators can now push evidence to the cloud for
       quick, efficient processing, alleviating the need for numerous forensic
       workstations.
    3. Access to investigate evidence in the cloud - As organizations shift
       operations to the cloud and rely more on a universe of IoT devices,
       investigative teams must keep pace and increase visibility and control in
       cloud environments. User and application interactions in cloud
       environments are difficult to view and analyze without brokered access
       between the cloud vendor and investigative technology. With OpenText
       EnCase on Azure, investigators can comprehensively process digital
       evidence, both on-prem and in the cloud, for complete and accurate
       findings.
    4. Investigate devices anytime, anywhere, with less reliance on corporate
       network or VPN - COVID-19 forced many businesses to new work-from-home
       models, complicating the task of corporate investigators  to investigate
       employee devices for evidence of insider threat, HR issues, or other
       internal investigations. With OpenText EnCase Investigator, corporate
       investigators can more easily reach out through the cloud to access
       employee devices and conduct investigations, without disrupting employee
       productivity.

"Digital investigators, be they law enforcement or corporate investigators, must collect, decrypt, process, and analyze evidence from a wide variety of devices and data repositories while maintaining the highest degrees of data integrity," said OpenText Chief Product Officer Muhi Majzoub. "OpenText EnCase is recognized globally as the market leader for digital forensics. Microsoft Azure lets us tap into the processing power and efficiency of the cloud to deliver better, faster results to investigators."

OpenText introduced the new cloud functionality at OpenText Enfuse On Air 2020. The #1 conference for digital investigators, security professionals, IT, and legal tech teams. Enfuse On Air 2020 features a new four-week digital format, registered attendees can leverage live and on-demand content reflecting a weekly theme. Register now for more content on OpenText(TM) EnCase solutions on Azure and the full suite of OpenText solutions for digital investigations, cybersecurity, and legal technology. Attendees can also join keynote sessions from OpenText CEO & CTO Mark J. Barrenechea, Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America Tarah Wheeler, and the 44(th) U.S. Army Surgeon General Nadja West.

With this latest integration with Azure, EnCase joins the more than 40 OpenText solutions available in the Azure Marketplace, such as OpenText Carbonite Backup for Microsoft Office 365 and OpenText Content Services Technology for teams. For more information, click here.

About OpenText

OpenText, The Information Company(TM), enables organizations to gain insight through market leading information management solutions, on-premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit opentext.com.

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