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What’s the Most Common Way YOU Send and Receive Large Files?

James Lewis — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:28:58 +0000

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!

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Healthcare Industry Beware!

Lindsay Lewis — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:51:49 +0000

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!

Makes you wonder whether, no lets rephrase that, WHEN the UK will follow in their footsteps. For those organisations operating in the health sector, it may be

wise to start reviewing the security and efficiency of you’re file transfer systems now, especially when you take into account the increased ICO powers of enforcement due to come into effect on 6th April 2010. If a similar mandate were to come into force in the UK, in order to avoid possible fines of up to £500,000 organisations would need ensure that sensitive client files were secured when being transported between locations.

If your a healthcare organisation and you want to review or evaluate your large file transfer processes, please get in touch with the team at Pro2col on 0333 123 1240. We offer a comprehensive range of secure file transfer solutions and we’re always happy to help.

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IT Departments Beware – employees may be compromising your data!!

Lindsay Lewis — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:24:04 +0000

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. This tactic is employed by many to evade the email server attachment limits imposed by IT departments.

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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