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3 Ways File Transferring Advance the Healthcare Industry

The world can be an intimidating place, new battles consistently arise for the healthcare and life sciences industry. Research is the key to preventing and defeating these challenges. Often work is kept behind the scenes and the average person forgets how much data this industry creates and the importance this data holds. The files that the healthcare and life sciences industry produce could...
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What is EFSS?

If you’ve ever had to MacGyver a way to send out a too-large file or work with a group of people on a single document, EFSS is probably what you were looking for to make the process painless: it’s a solution that makes sharing files (of any size) and collaborating in one place easy – and secure.EFSS stands for Enterprise File Syncing and Sharing, also...
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Benefits of a Content Collaboration Platform

Once upon a time, an organization’s valuable content lived in file drawers with neat little tabbed folders. It also lived on top of desks and on desktops. It lived in saved emails, cloud storage services, and even was embedded in texts. When it was time to share that content however, finding it, working with it, and sending it along often...
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How Does the DMZ Impact Security?

Your Secret Weapon for Data SecurityWhen weapons and military forces have been removed from active duty, this is referred to as “demilitarization.” On the internet, the demilitarized zone, or the DMZ, is a similar situation.What is the DMZ?The DMZ is the neutral network that resides between the Internet and your organization’s private network. It’s...
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4 Benefits of On-premises Enterprise File Sync and Sharing

The value of mission-critical business documents can't be overstated — but lax or renegade employees or trading partners can put your sensitive data at risk with reckless storage or sharing practices. Luckily, knowing that your data hasn't been exposed is as easy as implementing a secure Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) solution. There are...
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User Sharing and Collaboration: Security Concerns, Risks, and How to Securely Collaborate

Collaboration in the WorkspaceSecure collaboration tools that permit the sharing of sensitive data between users are quickly gaining momentum in the world of technology and file transfer.Although there are many benefits to utilizing these tools in the workspace, with user sharing and secure collaboration comes security concerns and a variety of...
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8 Surprising Ways to Use GoAnywhere's Secure Folders Module

What is Secure Folders? Secure Folders is a licensed module GoAnywhere MFT offers its users. It provides access to authorized files and folders on the server or network location through a HTTPS Web Client. However, it can do so much more with its array of features. Read on to learn 8 surprising ways to use GoAnywhere’s Secure Folders module....
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Should You Use a File Sharing App?

Should You Use a File Sharing App?File sharing apps like Dropbox and Google Drive certainly have their appeal. They are user-friendly, often free, and do the job of getting information from one user to another. Until they don’t.Or, until your files are hacked, get into the wrong hands, live in infamy, have unrestricted access, or are manipulated...
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What is Secure File Sharing?

What is Secure File Sharing?Secure is the operative word here. Dozens of applications allow you to transfer files – small to large – between different users or organizations. A secure file transfer solution, at its most basic, secures the movement of files while at rest and in transit confidentially – all within a protected mode.Secure file transfer...
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Should You Get Extended Customer Support? FileCatalyst’s Top 3 Reasons Why It’s Worth It

Whether you are purchasing the next trending iPhone or a powerful fast file transfer solution, support is always a bonus feature that provides you a team in your back corner. This sense of security takes a weight off of your shoulders because you know that assistance will be there to alleviate the stress that comes with updates, crashes, and more. Support is undervalued within the world of...
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Netflix Series Black Mirror, Highlights Data Protection– 3 Reasons Why You Should Listen

For good or for bad, the popular NetFlix television show, Black Mirror has global audiences overwhelmed with the future possibilities for technology. The show’s creators appear to have sought out the most extreme plotlines around technological threats, leaving us with digital nightmares. While Black Mirror mainly tackles the negative aspects of the potential advancement in technology, it does...
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Why Choose Managed File Transfer Over Free File Sharing Methods?

Why Choose Managed File Transfer?It’s no secret that many organizations struggle to fully protect the sensitive data their employees, customers, trading partners, and third-party vendors share.Free file sharing software and scripts are both common ways of transferring files, even though they’re not necessarily the most secure, can be complex, and lack...
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What is a DMZ and Why Do You Need a DMZ Secure Gateway?

If you’ve watched a science-fiction movie about space travel, then you’ve likely seen some version of a scene in which an astronaut reenters their ship from the outside abyss. Because the ship exists as a haven from the dangerous environment of empty space, the astronaut cannot simply open the door and stroll directly into the cockpit. To do so would...
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High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Oil & Gas

When it comes to the digital oilfield, High-Performance Computing (HPC) is an asset to be relied upon. From upstream discovery and the mapping of ocean floors to production, optimization and design; powerful HPC systems are analyzing, interpreting and manipulating unfathomable amounts of data.FileCatalyst has been helping a number of natural resources companies accelerate their workflows by moving...
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AI Across Industries – Where We Are, Where We’re Going

HAL 9000 might be closer, more useful and friendlier than we think. Artificial Intelligence (AI) might not be here in a fully realized form yet, but it’s already disrupting a lot of industries that we work in.As our customers discuss, question and evaluate the ways they can leverage AI to help streamline their workflows, I thought that I’d share some of the ways industry leaders leverage AI across...
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IP-Based Workflows – The Paradigm is Shifting, are You on Board?

Since returning from IBC 2018, I have been thinking about IP-based workflows and the great discussions we had about this emerging trend at our booth. While IP-based workflows are seeing increased adoption and bringing new opportunities, there are also challenges ahead. IP-based workflows aren’t exactly new, but adoption has greatly increased in the media space as of late. Global companies with...
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Chris Speaks at IABM: How Far Can We Go With The Cloud?

This year was another successful IBC for FileCatalyst, and we thank everyone who visited us. Our booth was bustling with activity; from people asking questions about how our fast file transfer solutions can fit in their workflow to people engaged with our in-depth demos that walked them through the user experience firsthand. Big thanks to every attendee that stopped by our booth, we are...
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Making Sense of the Numbers: Breaking Down Our Speed Chart

FileCatalyst World Speed Chart When we attend trade shows, like the IBC Show on the horizon, our FileCatalyst World Speed Chart always garners attention and starts conversations at our booth. The question people always ask about it is, “How?” And I can’t blame them. To take a file that would usually take five hours to transfer, and do it in 8.4...
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There are Threats to FTP Servers, are You Mitigating Them?

I just finished reading an article by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee about the threats facing healthcare companies when it comes to FTP servers. I thought it would be a good idea to outline these threats, provide some thoughts, and outline some of the ways FileCatalyst addresses them. The State of FTP Servers The FBI has warned the healthcare sector that the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) can easily...
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Using FileCatalyst to Remedy Healthcare IT Issues

When it comes to healthcare, file transfers aren’t something to be left to Dropbox or FTP email attachments. The requirements are many; files must remain confidential, visible, and secure – every time. Achieving this is becoming ever more challenging as the sheer size and volume of file transfers grow with every year. I came across an interesting article titled “7 File Transfer Challenges of...