With the economy showing no signs of improvement Pro2col is bucking the trend with May 2012 being our best month of trading ever, in fact 2012 has showed great promise. Our selection of managed file transfer vendors is paying dividends as we strengthen our relationships and knowledge of their technology moving us into the key supplier for several vendors.…
Yesterday was the first day of Infosecurity 2012 one of, if not the biggest IT Security Shows in Europe – and it was a busy one. Not only that, the war of the most outlandish gimmick was in full force, so be prepared for talking dogs and 7-foot robots if you’re planning to visit!…
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.…
File sharing applications are often free or at least cheap, simple to use and very often difficult for an IT department to trace. This presents a major problem for the enterprise as highlighted in a recent study by Palo Alto Networks which showed that of the 1,636 enterprises surveyed, a staggering 92% of companies had an average of 13 different browser based file sharing applications in use within their network.…
January 26, 2012 Category: Data Security, Secure File Transfer No Comments
This month the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has served a Monetary Penalty Notice of £130,000 to Powys County Council, after the details of a child protection case were sent to the wrong recipient. The penalty is the highest that the ICO has served since it received the power in April 2010.…
December 7, 2011 Tags: ad hoc file transfer, data breach, ico, ipswitch moveit dmz, secure file transfer
Category: Data Security, Secure File Transfer No Comments
This morning I was asked if I recommended using transport encryption or file encryption to protect company files and data.
My answer: “Use both of them, together!”
For starters, here’s a real quick summary of both encryption types:
Transport encryption (“data-in-transit”) protects the file as it travels over protocols such as FTPS (SSL), SFTP (SSH) and HTTPS.…
November 20, 2011 Tags: data at rest, data breach, data in transit, ftp, managed file transfer, secure file transfer, security compliance
Category: Data Security, Secure File Transfer No Comments
“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
Category: Data Security, File Transfer Discussion, Secure File Transfer No Comments
Typically, email is the first port of call for all non-technical staff members when faced with the task of sending large documents quickly. We’re now in an age where data leaks are common place and authorities are cracking down on insufficient security policies.…
July 1, 2011 Tags: BDS, data leak, data security policies, email attachment, IDG Research Services, large email attachment, large files
Category: Ad Hoc File Transfer, Biscom Delivery Server, Secure File Transfer No Comments
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.…
