File Transfer & Information Security Blog

There are lots of file transfer protocols to choose from, but one that’s rarely discussed in depth is AS2. In this article, we take a deeper look at AS2, how it stacks up against SFTP, and why you would choose one or the other.

PowerShell provides two similar management interfaces for accessing data on a computer: WMI and CIM.

In this podcast, we hear from a few IT experts about the worst IT nightmares they've ever encountered.

Time and time again, retailers prove to be a popular (and easy) target for hackers. The tangible and intangible costs for an e-commerce site that’s been breached can escalate quickly. In this post, we'll explore the issue, and outline some solutions. 

Azure Blueprints provide a "one-stop shop" for Azure governance. By implementing JSON templates and a controlled, unified workflow, Azure administrators can define, deploy, enforce, and maintain standardized Azure environments.

For many Microsoft IT professionals, one of the first things they do with PowerShell is using it to perform tasks in Active Directory.

Once you start rolling with Azure AD Connect and hybrid identity between local Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, one of your first thoughts is, "What happens if my Azure AD Connect server goes offline?"

If your business deals with credit card payments in any way, then PCI compliance is going to be a fact of life, and an essential part of running your business securely and efficiently. PCI compliance is a critically important step in protecting your customer's or...

If your organization is finding it difficult to comply with PCI DSS, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, it could be due to some of the misconceptions about the standard.

Today I will teach you how to create what Microsoft calls a managed storage account. As you may know, each storage account has two interchangeable private keys you can use to authenticate programmatically to the general purpose storage account's four services:

In this article, Dan Franciscus covers how to use the Invoke-Command and why it is one of his favorite commands to use in PowerShell.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) refer to security technologies that encrypt data sent between a web server and web browser.

We recently had a chance to sit down with Progress' partner, Orsenna, who has been serving WhatsUp Gold customers in Europe. More specifically, Switzerland.

As IT pros, we’ve been aware for quite some time that some users are a threat to security, whether by their use of shadow IT, their susceptibility to social engineering attacks from cybercriminals, or by using their employee role and access permissions to compromise data...

The process of securely installing software in Windows is something that IT professionals grapple with, especially in an enterprise setting.

The cloud is a fact of life in 2019. From basic cloud collaboration tools to storage buckets on massive cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, most businesses perform thousands of cloud file transfers every day, whether they’re aware of it or not. For businesses and IT...

If you are a small or medium business, you may have left your data backups in the hands of outside help or, even worse, to chance.

When it comes to cost savings for IT operations and businesses in general, information governance is probably the last thing you think of. In this podcast, we discuss the implications of information governance.

In enterprise environments, you will usually find an array of different Windows operating systems, hardware and of course software. Typically, machines are managed and configured with group policy and SCCM, or perhaps other more modern methods like Chef or Puppet. One of...

By now, you should know that controlling access to sensitive files, devices, tools, and network areas is of utmost importance in cybersecurity, but you should also know that it’s not enough to simply control how users access resources. It’s equally important to be able...