The proliferation of mobile devices within the enterprise is undeniable with tablets and smart phones becoming key tools for employees looking to ‘get the job done’. Many CIO’s and IT Directors know they have a problem with ensuring the secure and controlled mobile access to data, but what’s the solution?…
Over the past couple of years there has been considerable hype around saas, hosted or cloud based solutions – the managed file transfer marketplace has been no different. We speak to many businesses on a daily basis about their file transfer requirements and inevitably, a number of them ask for a cloud based solution.…
“My company still relies heavily on FTP. I know we should be using something more secure, but I don’t know where to begin.”
Sound familiar?
The easy answer is that you should migrate away from antiquated FTP software because it could be putting your company’s data at risk – unsecured data is obviously an enormous liability.…
November 1, 2011 Tags: ftp replacement, FTP solutions, managed file transfer, secure file transfer, sharepoint
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Everybody is talking about the cloud; its today’s hot topic with more and more organisations considering a cloud-base (hosted) solution as an alternative to their current on-premise solution. The shift to cloud based computing is gathering pace and consequently this is an area we’ve been looking at quite closely.…
We’re interested to find out what’s the most common way that you send and receive large files. If you’ve got a spare minute and fancy taking part in our mini poll on LinkedIn – here’s the link to follow:
http://polls.linkedin.com/p/111142/zgtbx
We’ll look forward to hearing from you!…
The PCI Security Standards Council have just released version 2.0 of PCI DSS, the Data Security Standard enforced upon all merchants that accept any form of card payments, designed to secure and protect cardholder details. Although introducing only minor alterations, the main intention of the amendment is to provide greater clarity and flexibility for small merchants, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of the requirements that must be satisfied under PCI DSS and making them easier to implement and abide by.…
GT News have just published a great article written by Jonathan Lampe (Vice President of Product Management at Ipswitch) regarding data transfer requirements under PCI DSS. If anyone is looking for a PCI DSS compliant solution for file transferring data, these are the points they really need to be taking into consideration:
Data: Transferring the Burden Under PCI DSS
Jonathan Lampe, Ipswitch – 08 Jun 2010
Despite widespread adoption of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and transaction sets in the financial industry, a surprising high percentage of the data flow is still represented by files or bulk data sets.…
June 22, 2010 Tags: compliance, data security, gartner, ipswitch file transfer, jonathan lampe, managed file transfer, mft, pci dss
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Today was the day that the ICO’s got the power to fine companies for data breaches with the amendments to the Data Protection Act finally coming into force. With the UK somewhat behind some of the EC this brings us closer in line with the the European Commissions E-privacy directive that the UK signed up to some years ago to uphold the privacy of individuals and specifically personally identifiable data.…
Recent reports have highlighted that hospitals and physicians in the US have been given a deadline of 2015, to convert all health records into digital form and then, to deploy the accompanying technology to handle these digital assets. Considering only about a quarter of the US population’s health records are digitally stored – this is a bit of a tall order!…
March 26, 2010 Tags: data security, healthcare, ico, large file transfer, secure file transfer
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Email is probably the best known and most widely used internet service in the marketplace to date. With an estimate quarter of the worlds population on the internet and a total of 418,029,796 users in Europe (over 50%), figures indicate that 92% of these users either send or read email.…
