File Transfer & Information Security Blog

Europe has long been at the forefront of data protection, years before the creation of Data Protection Day. Today, Data Protection Day has become a vital part of the data privacy movement in other countries, like the United States.

Canada is the latest GDPR-like entrant and drafted the Canadian Consumer Protection Act.

How much do lost files and records really cost?

All the firewalls and anti-malware solutions globally can’t protect this data when it is emailed around at near-spam levels. And with governmental organizations coming in all shapes and sizes, so do the threats.

The secure transfer of legal files is crucial to maintaining lawyer-client privilege and can be done effectively and securely with a Managed File Transfer (MFT).

Even after investing in everything — crossing all the T's, and dotting the i's, — executives will always feel like there is still something missing. Many wish that there was an extra mile or two they could go to secure their systems. That's where Managed File Transfer comes in.

MOVEit is the perfect medicine for safe, efficient and compliant file transfers for Hattiesburg Clinic in South Mississippi.

In an IT ecosystem marred by hacking occurrences and where sensitive, high-volume, compliance-regulated files are always on the move, efficiency in file transfer means so much more. It means automation. It means keeping data moving reliably, seamlessly, and securely.

Progress is pleased to announce MOVEit 2021.1, with incremental feature improvements that extend accessibility, scalability, and usability in the industry’s leading secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) software.

Let's play a game. Close one eye if you feel your existing file sharing mechanisms and technologies are lacking the necessary security, control and governance angles.  

What does a file go through to complete a secure, efficient journey? 

File transfers are too important to trust to just any old script. Ensure speed and secure transfers with automation. 

GDPR is now three-years old, and even the largest companies are still regularly caught in its snares. And those that haven't yet run into trouble are maybe more vulnerable than they think. In this blog, learn more about data protection and GDPR compliance.

Data threats are increasing every day and smart IT pros are racing to not just keep up but get ahead. One area many neglect is secure file transfer.

Just because a tool calls itself Secure File Transfer doesn't make it so. Many so-called secure solutions are in fact only partially secure – and sometimes barely secure. So what are the top methods to transfer files securely?

The bar for security in Healthcare IT is so high it takes Olympic-class efforts to clear it. Securing data is the most critical hurdle. So where is your most sensitive data? In files, of course. And it is these files that fly about like seagulls at the fishing pier....

Manually transferring files through legacy protocols such as FTP is a painful memory you would probably like to forget. That's where Automation comes into play.

Secure File Transfer is as simple as it sounds, the secure transfer of files. But the real questions revolve around why you need to securely transfer files, what happens if you don’t, and how the heck can we do it properly?

You probably have heard the saying "practice makes perfect" countless times, but in situations where there's nothing to perfect, repetition gets boring and tedious with time.

Well over 200,000,000 people across 250,000-plus organizations use Microsoft SharePoint. That's a lot of data and a lot of files. SharePoint is arguably the most common document library software in use today.