HPE Nonstop has long been a byword for scalability and reliability. But times are changing. Today’s enterprise IT environments are increasingly complex, heterogenous and outward facing. While the platform still has an important role to play, it isn’t the only show in town. Cloud and AI are powerful drivers of value in their own right today — helping organizations to boost efficiencies, enhance customer experiences and make better business decisions.
The risk is that, as IT complexity surges and the threat landscape continues to evolve, HPE Nonstop deployments could create a dangerous security gap at the heart of the enterprise. That’s why customers are turning to unified data protection solutions like comforte TAMUNIO.
The Landscape Is Changing
Data and access are critical pillars of modern cybersecurity strategy. They matter to any organization, but especially those dealing with some of the most sensitive information on the planet, like banks, retailers and telcos. Threat actors are well aware of the value of this data. It’s why financial services suffered more data compromises than any other sector in the US in H1 2025. And why extortion attacks on two UK retailers last year cost over £400m ($269m).
Threat actors have the advantage of surprise, and the support of a cybercrime economy worth trillions. From infostealers to phishing kits, a growing range of automated and pre-built services have commoditized key parts of the cybercrime supply chain, while AI offers new ways to close skills gaps and scale campaigns. On the other side, stretched security teams are struggling to manage risk across sprawling supply chains and attack surfaces. Innovative AI security tools can help network defenders — but only up to a point.
With the right credentials, adversaries can bypass even the smartest perimeter security. And even if organizations encrypt their data, harvest-now-decrypt later (HNDL) attacks represent a rapidly emerging threat.
HPE Nonstop Feels the Strain
As if that weren’t enough, HPE Nonstop customers must often contend with legacy access methods that are fragmented, opaque and insecure. These can add compliance challenges and operational inefficiency, as well as increasing the risk of unauthorized access. Organizations typically use multiple point solutions not only for access, but also monitoring and audit reporting, which creates its own overheads and security blind spots. A reliance on manual processes introduces human error.
Securing data at rest may only extend as far as encryption of structured data. And when it comes to data in transit, legacy connectivity in HPE Nonstop environments can create security and compliance risks. Addressing these deficiencies isn’t easy without creating more operational friction. Yet it’s essential if businesses want to accelerate their digital transformation journeys.
Reduce Risk, Accelerate Compliance, Unlock Innovation
Against this backdrop, comforte TAMUNIO offers a unified platform for data protection, digital enablement and secure connectivity. Consider the following benefits:
Simplified security operations enabled by a unified NonStop Key Management Service (KMS), which centralizes lifecycle control, automates key and certificate rotation, and stores business-critical enterprise secrets. This in turn minimizes manual effort, reduces human error and improves team productivity. The result is enhanced uptime and audit readiness, and fewer SLA breaches and manual interventions. Lower admin overheads could cut operational security costs by up to 25% for Nonstop customers.
Improved data security through: automated TLS/SSH key rotation and certificate renewal (as above); multi-factor authentication (MFA); transparent file encryption; secure secrets storage; and privileged access controls. Expanding encryption to unstructured data reduces breach risk, while minimizing manual work reduces the chances of unintentional insider incidents.
Enterprise-wide data protection across Nonstop, open and cloud systems — via centrally managed TLS, SSH, file encryption, and tokenization. This shrinks the attack surface, streamlines governance and reduces security silos and tool sprawl.
Built-In PCI DSS compliance readiness thanks to MFA, centralized audit logging, GDPR-ready tokenization, and Sovereignty Zones for data control. This reduces the potential costs, legal exposure and complexity of compliance, while building stakeholder trust.
Cloud enablement without rework, powered by tokenization, encryption, Sovereignty Zones and Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) support. The platform works to securely extend legacy systems into modern environments for digital transformation, without the need to re-engineer.
With comforte TAMUNIO, HPE Nonstop customers can do more than reduce costs and breach/compliance risk. They get a platform which both protects sensitive data and ensures it’s available for AI and analytics use cases. This opens the door to the kind of innovation-powered growth that all enterprises are striving for.
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