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Implementing File Transfer Strategies for Cybersecurity

  Image So, you did your legwork and identified your cybersecurity needs around transferring files securely. You found your best secure file transfer solution by checking out a few top choices based on reviews, trials and maybe even a demo or two. And now that you’ve got the green light for your chosen secure file transfer solution,...
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The Encryption Prescription For Healthcare

  Image “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” The saying is overused, but there’s a ring of truth to it. We do trust doctors – with our health, the delivery of our babies, the care of our parents, and the diagnosis of our illnesses. And a lot of information in between. It’s no wonder then that this information – private, sensitive, vulnerable,...
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How to Find a File Transfer Solution for Your Cybersecurity Needs

Image   If your organization has already gone through an assessment or a reevaluation of your cybersecurity processes, policies, and tools, chances are you confirmed a need to ensure that the mission-critical and sensitive data you exchange every day must be secured both at rest and in transit. File transfer security is a...
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How to Identify Cybersecurity Needs for File Transfers

  Image   Cybersecurity. The word or concept seems to arise at some point in nearly every news feed lately. Its prominence has risen over the past few years as the impact of inadequate cybersecurity and very determined cybercriminals is so substantial – whether you’re a small business or a large, sprawling enterprise.   Before we...
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What Your Organization Needs to Know About Secure File Transfer

  Image It’s safe to say that the last few years have significantly increased the demand for Secure File Transfer (SFT) solutions such as GoAnywhere MFT. When the pandemic made vast numbers of the working population work from home almost overnight, there was a sudden spike in the requirement for robust and effective SFT. People...
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Secure Government Files with a Managed File Transfer Solution

  Image If government IT departments were to debate on key cybersecurity issues, one that likely keeps people up at night is how to help ensure their sensitive, often top-secret, data is secure when being sent in and out of their network. While there may be several candidates in the running to address this cybersecurity issue, a...
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SOX Compliance: What You Need to Know

  Image   What is SOX or Sarbanes-Oxley Act?   SOX, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, was enacted by Congress in 2002 to help provide better security for the general public and consumers. It was structured to improve corporate governance and accountability and to better shield the public from malicious or unintentional misuse of...
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Scammers Access 50% of Compromised Accounts Within 12 Hours According to New Research

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON (June 8, 2021) — Fortra's Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense for the enterprise, unveiled today the results of an investigation into the anatomy of compromised email accounts. The threat intelligence brief, titled Anatomy of a Compromised Account, is the first research of its kind, showcasing how threat actors use credential...
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Fortra Makes its MFT Solution More Global

MINNEAPOLIS December 10, 2019 – Fortra today announced a new release of its award-winning secure managed file transfer (MFT) software GoAnywhere. The new version makes it easier for customers to share critical information around the world with their trading partners via more global EDI standards and broader language support. Featuring support for EDIFACT (Electronic Data...
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How MFT Can Offset the Rising Cost of Data Breaches in 2022 

  Image There’s plenty to be concerned about when it comes to data breaches. At top of mind, there’s always the information that’s stolen, be it customer data, personal emails, confidential files, or any other number of company secrets that are supposed to remain within the company. Then there’s the monetary cost of the data breach –...
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GoAnywhere Services

In July of 2015, GoAnywhere Services was upgraded and renamed to GoAnywhere MFT, which is the next evolution in Managed File Transfer technology. GoAnywhere MFT merges the secure FTP server and collaboration features (adapted from GoAnywhere Services) with the workflow automation capabilities (adapted from GoAnywhere Director). This provides customers with a unified browser...
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GoAnywhere by Fortra Listed by French Supplier CAIH

France’s Centrale d'Achat de l'Informatique Hospitalière (CAIH) prepares and runs public contracts in the field of IT and telecom for its members, public and private non-profit health institutions. Created in 2014, it now has 1,300 members including EFS, FEHAP, FHF, Biomedicine Agency, UniHA, etc. The software publisher is widely present at the European and global level in the...
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How to Evaluate File Transfer Solutions

  Image   How to Choose a File Transfer Solution When it comes to software or technical solutions you’ve got options, sometimes too many of them. Thankfully, there are plenty of strategies to help you narrow down your choices and make an informed decision. You can ask an industry peer, read user reviews on any number of review...
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GoAnywhere by Fortra Achieves AS2 Drummond Certification for MFT, Strengthening Company's Security Suite Stance

MINNEAPOLIS (December 14, 2021) – Fortra announced today that its GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) solution is AS2-certified by Drummond Group. This certification recognizes that GoAnywhere meets the full interoperability testing, so information is exchanged and received securely and according to the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) standards. AS2 is a popular protocol...
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Security Solutions for Managed File Transfer

  Image By Christopher R. Wilder Research Director & Senior Analyst, TAG Cyber Forbes Contributor Businesses are sharing more sensitive information every day. CISOs and CIOs face the challenge of securing data shared between employees, customers, and third parties. Managed file transfer (MFT) is the solution most organizations use...
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PCI DSS 4.0 - What to Expect, What's Coming, How to Comply

  Image Get ready for more stringent PCI DSS compliance requirements. The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) updated its version 4.0 requirements in March 2022, in large part to address increasingly sophisticated cybercriminal threats. Rapidly growing contactless and cloud-based card usage also helped nudge an update to PCI DSS...
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Are SSH and SFTP the Same?

Image Are SSH and SFTP the Same? SSH and SFTP are a classic pair. They intertwine when it comes to securing communication, and while they have similar capabilities, they are not the same thing. So, what’s the difference between them? Read on to find out.   What is SSH? Secure Shell (SSH) is a transport layer that is used...
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Security Risks of File Transfers and How to Reduce Them

  Image Transferring files between customers and trading partners, especially files containing sensitive data without appropriate data security protection solutions applied, involves at least some level of risk. You might accidentally send files to the wrong recipient. Or your latest email attachment was sent with an unsecure File...