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
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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
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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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