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Data Security Measures for the Return to Office

Whether your employees are headed back to the office enthusiastically, with a bit of dread, or a mix of emotions, they’ll bring with them more than just their laptops, lunches, and stories from their work-from-home days upon their return. They’ll also potentially be bringing along some data security risks.While risks around unauthorized file sharing,...
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5 Ways Government Can Improve Cybersecurity Resilience

Cybersecurity for Government is CrucialIn these trying times government agencies everywhere must be resilient when it comes to cybersecurity.Cyber resilience is an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. A cyber-resilient organization can adequately adapt to known and unknown crises, threats, adversities, and...
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What is India's Personal Data Protection Bill?

The EU’s GDPR paved the way for data privacy and protection laws around the world, and one of the latest is the emerging Personal Data Protection Bill in India. While organizations in India already adhere to international data privacy laws, including GDPR when serving overseas customers, as well as the restrictions set out in 2000’s Information...
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Secure File Transfer for Supply Chain Risk Management

Supply chain attacks are one of the fastest-growing cyber risks that organizations face in 2022, and when it comes to supply chain risk management, organizations in every industry should pay attention.There have always been efforts to help organizations understand and mitigate risks related to supply chain, and recent initiatives, including the U.S.’s...
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Shadow IT and Work From Home: The Risks and Solutions

Working 9 to 5 is no longer the only way to make a living, and for the foreseeable future, organizations parking most of their employees at a particular desk Monday through Friday is looking less and less likely. Working from home, at least as part of a hybrid organizational structure, is here to stay. Whether working from home, in a hybrid...
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Tainted Love, Ransomware, and More: This Month in Cybersecurity

February, while a short month, was long on cybersecurity threats. Read on for a few of the high- (well, low-lights) as well as for some resources from GoAnywhere MFT on how you can help secure your sensitive data files while they are in motion and in transit. Love Hurts The search for love turned up more than potential partners over the last...
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How the Coronavirus Has Changed Data Security

COVID-19 Has Made a Lasting Impact on Data SecurityThe Coronavirus pandemic has altered many things in this world and data security is no exception. Along with the solid impact COVID-19 has made on data security, let’s highlight some of the other key ways lasting change has been made within businesses.The Lasting Change: Working from HomeAs of 2022,...
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Still WFH? Time to Revisit BYOD, Security, and More

Work from home, which was once an early-pandemic precaution, is becoming a norm across industries. It is likely that the pandemic has shifted how people work forever, with half of employees expecting to work predominantly from home or in a hybrid home-and-office system going forward. However, just as in the early days of the pandemic,...
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What is Shadow IT and Why is it a Problem?

Shadow IT Doesn’t Lurk in the Shadows – it's PrevalentAlthough it may seem foreign now, there was once a time when an organization’s IT department had complete and total control over the technology being used by the organization. Before software could be purchased, or before anyone clicked download, the IT Director’s blessing was needed.In current...
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The 10 Biggest Data Security Breaches of 2021

2021 Was Not Fun for Those Who Suffered a Data BreachAlthough 2021 brought about many positive changes and more of a return to normalcy, it did not bring fun times for the many organizations who suffered from costly data breaches.With the numbers, costs, and impacts of a data breach on the rise, it’s important to do what you can to protect your...
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What is Mobile Malware?

Meet Mobile Malware Mobile malware is a malicious kind of software that hackers use to specifically target and collapse operating systems on smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches in order to steal confidential data. Generally speaking, mobile devices aren’t as secure as computers. So, it’s not a stretch that the same security measures organizations...
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What is Encrypted File Sharing?

What is Encrypted File Sharing?Whether you’re sending data back and forth for edits or accessing a shared document, file security is important. Encrypted file sharing is a method of securely exchanging data either internally or externally by encoding data and protecting its transmission.Data encryption uses algorithms to scramble the contents of files...
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What is SOC 2 and Why it Matters for Security

There are some things in life that should be a given: rollercoasters are inspected regularly, chefs wash their hands, and your organization’s file transfers are secure.That last is a little more nebulous to see immediate cause-and-effect (it’s not like your rollercoaster car rolling off the tracks or getting food poisoning!) but unsecure file...
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What is Zero Knowledge Encryption?

What is Zero Knowledge Encryption?If zero knowledge means every piece of information is absolutely confidential, and all data remains only with the user of a software or service, how does zero knowledge apply to encryption?Zero knowledge encryption basically states that data is kept secure via a unique user or encryption key, one that even the...
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What is the DROWN Attack?

What is the DROWN Attack? The Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption (DROWN) Attack is a serious vulnerability that affects HTTPS and other servers that rely on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS). Essentially DROWN is an attack vector that leverages a cross-protocol bug in servers that support modern...
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Developing a Plan for Data Risk Management

What is Data and Risk Management?Data and risk management encompasses the processes and procedures an organization follows to safeguard the data it collects and stores. Data is today’s biggest asset—and today’s biggest target. If your organization has data, no matter now little or how sensitive, it’s at risk for leakage, theft, or attack. Sorry, that...
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Is MFT the Next Big Integrating Technology?

Is MFT Integration Software?MFT, which stands for managed file transfer, is not, strictly speaking, integration software. Managed file transfer at the most basic level is a transfer tool designed to get your data from A to B securely.Despite that, many MFT solutions take over the functions of everyday file transfer tools and scripts—automation,...
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Is MFT Dead?

As cybersecurity technology continues to advance, some might ask whether secure MFT is fading away as a viable option for organizations to use for their file transfer needs. If organizations do choose to utilize MFT for their secure file transfer purposes, they will certainly select the best MFT software they can. The bottom line is that MFT will not...
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The Surprising Relationship Between Data Privacy Laws and File Sharing

Location, location, location. Not just the mantra of realtors and would-be buyers – it’s also a concern for data security professionals world-wide. As cloud computing has ramped up across industries, the physical location of stored data has been called into question, alongside concerns stemming from data privacy laws.Read on to discover how data...