Recent research suggests that the SMB sector is coming under an increasing number of cyber attacks from hackers and cyber criminals. Figures published by Symantec revealed that the number of attacks on companies with fewer than 250 staff had doubled in the six months to June 2012.…
It would be fair to say that a clear majority of the IT professionals we speak to on a weekly basis want to regain some control over the data that their employees send. In the past, many IT administrators would start with the customary approach of limiting the size of email attachments that could be sent via the email server.…
Once again the spotlight has been turned on Dropbox following their recent investigation into irregularities in their service. This latest occurrence appears as though it will conclude with Dropbox announcing that a number of their European users email address or account details have been compromised, we’ll watch with anticipation for the outcome.…
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.…
If you’re considering implementing a managed file transfer solution during 2011 then you’re in luck. Pro2col has been lobbying Ipswitch’s marketing team to provide a web cast specifically for the UK marketplace to address the considerations that should be taken into account when planning the implementation of a managed file transfer solution.…
January 12, 2011 Tags: ipswitch file transfer, jonathan lampe, managed file transfer, mft, moveit dmz, secure file transfer
Category: Events, Ipswitch File Transfer No Comments
GT News have just published a great article written by Jonathan Lampe (Vice President of Product Management at Ipswitch) regarding data transfer requirements under PCI DSS. If anyone is looking for a PCI DSS compliant solution for file transferring data, these are the points they really need to be taking into consideration:
Data: Transferring the Burden Under PCI DSS
Jonathan Lampe, Ipswitch – 08 Jun 2010
Despite widespread adoption of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and transaction sets in the financial industry, a surprising high percentage of the data flow is still represented by files or bulk data sets.…
June 22, 2010 Tags: compliance, data security, gartner, ipswitch file transfer, jonathan lampe, managed file transfer, mft, pci dss
Category: Data Security, File Transfer Discussion, Ipswitch File Transfer, Secure File Transfer No Comments
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.…
