MOVEit Ad Hoc ensures secure sending and receiving of sensitive files and messages between individuals and groups. It provides peace of mind for businesses sharing mission critical digital information with their employees, partners and customers using Outlook or any simple browser interface. A recent Ipswitch study reveals that more than a third of people sharing information are doing so insecurely, through personal email or consumer file-sharing sites. MOVEit Ad Hoc provides a simple yet secure solution to sharing files which avoids this increasingly prevalent risky behaviour.

For over 20 years Ipswitch has been a leader in providing secure Managed File Transfer solutions. So it is an honour to be recognised by SC Magazine, not just for ourselves, but on behalf of the many businesses and industries that already depend upon Ipswitch File Transfer to protect their most valuable and sensitive information. It’s also particularly rewarding for MOVEit Ad Hoc to be recognised on the heels of our recent launch – our easy-to-use, IT-approved, person to person file transfer solution.

SC Magazine is the world’s largest dedicated IT security publication, serving the industry for over 15 years. The SC Awards Europe is among the most coveted and prestigious accolades for the information security industry, honouring vendors that deliver the most innovative security technologies.

A panel of industry judges from the information security profession will now pass judgement on the products and services put before them, including Ipswitch File Transfer MOVEit Ad Hoc. Review the shortlist for every category here. Read the latest awards build-up and coverage here. Book tickets for the event here, and find out more about MOVEit Ad Hoc here.

Guest Blog by Jeff  Whitney, Vice President of Marketing, Ipswitch File Transfer

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Over the past 18 months Pro2col has worked closely with a number of County Councils looking to implement a simple way of securing person to person, ad hoc   file transfers.  Additionally, with County Councils looking to centralise or share the cost of services (Shared Services), Ipswitch’s MOVEit DMZ with the Ad Hoc module has proved a very popular choice, especially considering the cost of the Enterprise licence in comparison to other vendors.

MOVEit DMZ has another extremely popular feature – the option to licence multiple organisations on the same server, providing separate branding options for other services, e.g. Fire, Police, District and Borough Councils, whilst keeping users and data separate.  This dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership.

If you’re a Council with a requirement to secure person to person file transfer whilst benefiting from an industry leading secure file transfer server, then speak to one of our consultants. We’ll assess your individual requirements and help you to evaluate the best solution for your needs from the market leading managed file transfer vendors with whom we work.

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Emerging with an overall rating of 5 stars – it was clear that BDS was found to be easy to deploy, easy to use, and it gets the job done when it comes to transferring sensitive data securely and simply.

The numerous advantages such as multi-platform (Windows and Linux supported, and VM), Outlook plug-in, checkpoint restart, no file size limits, strongest back end encryption (AES 256-bit), extremely granular tracking and reporting, Web services SDK, and it’s simple, intuitive web interface means Biscom Delivery Server is one of the most comprehensive ad hoc file transfer solutions in the marketplace.

You can read the full SC Magazine Biscom Delivery Server review here or, for more information regarding the product please visit the Biscom Delivery Server product page on our website or contact Pro2col on 0333 123 1240.

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So if we can’t email large attachments, what can we do?  Introducing our latest white paper; Email Attachment Management – The Future of Ad Hoc File Transfer, which is available for download now.  It addresses the issues surrounding the ad hoc transmission of large files and details how email attachment management solutions enable businesses to email large attachments, minus the problems associated with standard email.

If you would like to discuss any of your file transfer requirements ad hoc or otherwise, please contact Pro2col on 0333 123 1240, we are always happy to help.

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Considering 20% of the organisations surveyed send in excess of 500 files a week, this is a seriously disturbing statistic when you take into account the ramifications of using standard email for file transfer.  The most frustrating aspect of this predicament, is that many IT professionals are fully aware of the risks associated with this method of file transfer in particular e.g…

•    Compromised security and non-compliance
•    Lack of tracking, logging and auditing
•    The absence of visibility and monitoring

…and consequently, have introduced strategies and procedures to combat the use of unsolicited file transfer methods. The problem is employees will continue to violate security and procedural policies if they aren’t provided with a comparable, alternative solution that offers the same, simple functionality as their email client.

The results also revealed that 55% of the organisations surveyed had seen a 20% increase in ad hoc file transfer activity during June-July 2009 – the largest growth across all of the business file transfer ‘requirements’.  Evidently, employees have an increasing need to send large files on an ad hoc basis, largely due to the dramatic increase in file size over recent years.

So the moral of this story is, if you want your employees to adhere to company procedural policies when sending large files on an ad hoc basis, IT departments need to provide them with an adequate alternative to their email server!

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During our time in the file transfer industry we have spoken to lots of organisations across different industry sectors with a requirement to send large files on an Ad Hoc (or one-off) basis, a need that had been overlooked in the development of many secure file transfer solutions.  Ad hoc file transfer solutions come into their own on the occasions that you really need to send a large file quickly and simply without the worry or expense of having to involve IT administrators to create or manage end-user accounts.  They will literally allow you to send the file in the same way you would when using an email attachment, minus the problems experienced when using a traditional mail server!

We wanted to take this opportunity to invite all of our readers to a special webinar being held on Thursday 29th October at 2pm (GMT).  Here you will be given the chance to see exactly how the solution works and to ask any questions relating to the Biscom Delivery Server, Ad Hoc file transfer or just secure file transfer in general!

To find our more about exactly what will be covered during the 1 hour webinar, please visit the webinar section of the Pro2col website.

If you are interested in attending please register here…

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