Thales e-Security supports Live Data Transformation Extension which aids in reducing downtime in ciphering plain text to cipher text or deciphering cipher text to plain text. Some of the key features of Live Data Transformation Extension support are minimal downtime encryption deployment, easier key rotation, and backup and archive recovery. Thales e-Security is one of the few companies offering encryption support for Docker containers. The company is also highly focused on application encryption and offers encryption for database files, big data nodes, and PaaS environments with features such as centralized key and policy management, simpler implementation options, and batch data transformation utility scalability.