Security

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.

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

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...

A month ago we told you how MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) is an essential part of your encryption strategy. This month we’re letting someone else tell you the same thing for even more confirmation.

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...

APIs are becoming a huge part of how healthcare organizations provide better care to patients. But what about the security concerns with APIs?

Nobody does IT security better than you and your InfoSec team. You developed a strategic plan that prevents most breaches, and for those that do slip by your perimeter defenses, you have a great tactical plan to identify and mitigate attacks as quickly as possible....

Security policies are prone to change, and you need to keep your users up-to-date on those changes so that they won't violate the terms of the policy, but doing so is often easier said than done.  

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has been the standard bearer for sending or moving files too large for email. Today, those file transfers contain the lifeblood of an organization and so Secure FTP is now critical.

If you're using secure file transfer tools, chances are you're security conscious. Maybe you're working in a highly-regulated industry, or perhaps you don't want your company on the front page of the newspaper for getting hacked. Whatever the case, if you're securing...

Businesses archive their data for a lot of reasons, but what is the most critical use case for archiving? For security or for posterity?

Bluetooth security… Some consider it an oxymoron, like ‘global intelligence’ community or ‘offshore support’ while others recognize Bluetooth flaws and understand their causes. Whatever side of the fence your opinions lie, it’s fair to observe that Bluetooth has its...

In this Have You Met? podcast, we sat down with Daniel Hotz of QBITS, a Progress partner based in Switzerland, to see how they are implementing MOVEit managed file transfer in the various regions they serve clients.

Efficient collaboration and peer-to-peer file transfer are important for any job, but you don't want to do it in a way that leaves data unprotected.

In this article, we discuss how to grant users simple admin rights temporarily like installing software. This helps keep IT from getting bogged down.

Ah, cryptography. It’s so important to us in our every day lives and yet it has one of the longest and confusing pasts of any type of technology we use today.

Username and password may be the de-facto means of authentication for many organizations, but they can easily be the weakest link in security controls. In this article, we’ll detail why Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be paired with encryption for top-level...