News about data breaches that affect big businesses and brands make the front pages. News about a cybersecurity hit on the neighborhood hardware store or the local pharmacy or coffee shop only seem to make headlines at the dinner table.If you own or manage a small or family business, it’s vital that you take steps to mitigate the impact a data breach...

What do “T” and “S” have in common? If you add them to FTP you can create an entirely new protocol!FTP + S becomes either SFTP or FTPS, and by adding a second “T,” you get TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol). While FTP isn’t recommended for transferring files securely, SFTP and FTPS are solid replacement choices – but what about TFTP? Learn about...

GoAnywhere MFT is an Executive Option for Government AgenciesGovernment agencies face many significant regulations and security policies when it comes to protecting sensitive data year-round.GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) protects data confidentiality in public sector organizations by helping agencies meet the strict requirements they’re...

Data breaches have been plaguing organizations for years and the numbers continue to climb. After a breach, an organization goes into survival mode — trying to recover data, reestablish trust, and ensure they can keep their business running. It’s understandable that there isn’t much leisure time to sit back and reflect on what could have been...

Logistically, you’re good to go: employees are working from their home offices, spare rooms, and kitchen counters as if they’ve always been doing it, IT is keeping things chugging along on the back end, and you’ve even ironed out the kinks in video call happy hours. Now that your employees can successfully work from home, it’s time to circle back and...

How to Help Ensure Compliance with Data Privacy LawsIf complying with data privacy laws like the GDPR, PDPA, CPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, PIPEDA, and more sometimes feels like swimming in alphabet soup, there is a life preserver that can simplify, secure, and automate the processes involved. Managed file transfer can proactively help organizations meet...

Data breaches are, unfortunately for organizations everywhere, becoming likely events rather than worst-case scenarios, as more and more organizations are learning. There are a variety of safeguards businesses can implement to reduce their risk, but even with good data security in place, a breach can happen.So, what do you do? And what is the outcome...

GoAnywhere MFT is Just What the Doctor OrderedThe healthcare industry is a complex system full of regulations to comply with and highly sensitive data to move from one location to the next.From dramatic cost cutting, to eliminating manual processes, to strengthening data encryption and more, GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) is just what the...

A data breach can wreak financial and logistical havoc for companies who experience them, not to mention customers, employees, and others who depend on or work with the breached organization. And even though it seems like data breaches are becoming more pervasive, they continue to severely impact organizations’ carefully built reputations – and may...

Feel Like You're Working Together — Even From ApartFinding the best way to securely collaborate on and share files can be difficult in the best of times. With large swathes of people working from home for the first time, finding the solution that meets your business requirements is paramount.Content collaboration tools vary, but fulfill the same goal:...

One too many things has gone wrong: a file didn’t arrive at its destination and you’re not sure why; your developer is out of office and you need to make a small change to your file transfer script; you logged into five different tools to schedule a simple transfer. And suddenly you realize: the time has come to move away from FTP scripts. At...

Governments are taking more steps than ever to protect their citizens’ personal data online – and some have been doing so for longer than others. Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) was established in 2013, and since then has helped to foster privacy regulations for citizens of the Republic of Singapore.What is the PDPC?The...

When cyberattacks and data breaches make the news, it’s usually because they’re at large companies like Facebook or healthcare organizations. But every organization, large or small, needs to be concerned about cybersecurity; hackers have begun to understand that, while smaller companies may have less data on hand, they may have access to covetable...

NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a lab and non-regulatory federal agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Founded in 1901 as a tool to boost the U.S.'s global competitiveness, NIST fosters efforts to create standards across technology systems. Today, NIST continues to push for innovation in a variety of industries and...

Secure Messaging in HealthcareHealthcare is essential to live a healthy life, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.Healthcare is an industry that will always be growing, which means that if your situation transitions to a place where you need to see a new doctor or a specialist, your very private and personal health records will need...

Free time! Free food! Free kittens! All great concepts, right? Free file transfers! Ummmm, not so much. The old adage, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is…” definitely holds when it comes to file transfers. After all, the data you send to third-parties, vendors, customers and even internal staff is priceless and, in the wrong hands...

Intergalactic – or at least global – organizations of all sizes use GoAnywhere MFT to securely transfer data while saving time, money, and valuable resources. But moving files from one place to another is just the start of the GoAnywhere adventure.GoAnywhere MFT has built-in elements that anyone can access from their first login alongside pick-and...

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the latest data privacy law in the Golden State, went into effect on January 1st, 2020. Some have compared it to the UK’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), and they’re not far off – like the GDPR, the CCPA is intended to protect individuals’ private data by making data collection and usage more...

Top Data Breaches of 2019: How You Can Minimize Your RiskYour organization made the headlines! That’s great, right? Not if it’s because you had sensitive data breached. A data breach can wreak financial and logistical havoc for you, your customers, patients, employees, and others. More importantly, it can severely impact the reputation you’ve so...

Make Resolutions - AND Keep ThemResolutions. Every year you make them. Every year you break them. Make 2020 the year you finally resolve to make your file transfers more secure. Do it — even if you’re a stranger to the gym, you still sport those extra 10 pounds and haven’t called your mom in a week.Don’t wait until mid-January to feel guilty about...