According to a survey published by Osterman Research Inc. in June-July 2009, using a sample of large organisations (over 500 employees and $5 million dollar revenue), 82% of employees resort to using personal email accounts when sending large files – compromising data security.…
With the sheer abundance of security standards, laws and legislation in our society nowadays, it’s really easy to get overwhelmed. Although a necessary measure to safeguard individual’s confidential information and protect your business against prosecution, it can be difficult to fathom which laws apply to your organisation when it comes to secure file transfer.…
The European Commission (EC) have publicly stated that the UK Government is not adequately enforcing European data privacy laws and is ready to clamp down on them in 2 months time. Reported on the Infosecurity web site and backed up by our recent discussions with the ICO; next year is likely to be the year in which Enterprises feel the full force of European legislation regarding the data privacy.…
November 2, 2009 Tags: european commission, european data privacy, ico, legislation, secure file transfer
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We hear it in the news week in week out. So and so company has left a laptop on a train containing 4 million unencrypted customer records, a hacker has infiltrated an online payment system stealing thousands of unsuspecting UK consumer credit card details – even today I have walked through the door and the first news alert in my email begins, “ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach.” I can’t help but wonder why data security is failing?…
October 26, 2009 Tags: annual data and privacy conference, christopher graham, data breach, data loss, data security, ico, pci dss, secure file transfer
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File transfer requirements are diversifying at a rate of knots with more products available than I care to count, but for me there are three distinct types of file transfer solutions I believe the majority of the larger corporate and blue chip customers are interested in.…
In the previous blog article “File transfer – a manual action or embedded process” I suggested that wherever possible file transfer should be an embedded or automated process rather than a manual action. For those adopting the manual approach I suggested that companies were under-utilising their most valuable resource – their employees – and that it was a criminal waste of time and money.…
So why FTP File Transfer and what’s so great about it? Well to be honest this isn’t necessarily a blog to evangelise FTP but more the way in which it works, lets call it ’sending files’. With many businesses looking to adopt Managed File Transfer solutions, I thought it might be worth redressing the balance and putting things into perspective.…
Lets face it file transfer isn’t the most interesting subject in the world, but its a necessity for many businesses to move data from one location to another in order for individuals or teams to carry out certain tasks.
For many businesses however, file transfer is a tedious process requiring manual intervention.…
