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Cybersecurity for Small Businesses | Plans and Templates

  Image 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...
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TFTP vs. SFTP: The Key Differences

  Image 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...
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3 Lessons Learned from a Data Breach

  Image 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...
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5 Ways to Tighten Cybersecurity Working from Home

  Image 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...
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How a Data Security Breach Puts Your Organization at Risk

  Image 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...
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How GoAnywhere MFT Helps the Healthcare Industry Thrive

  Image GoAnywhere MFT is Just What the Doctor Ordered The 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...
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Key Cybersecurity Takeaways from the EasyJet Data Breach

  Image 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...
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Replace Your FTP Scripts to Increase Security

  Image 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...
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What is NIST?

  Image 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...
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What are the Secure Messaging Standards in Australia?

  Image Secure Messaging in Healthcare Healthcare 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...
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What is Wrong With Free File Transfer?

  Image 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...
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Going Beyond File Transfer

  Image 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...
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What is the California Consumer Privacy Act?

  Image 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...
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Top Data Breaches of 2019: How You Can Minimize Your Risks

  Image   Top Data Breaches of 2019: How You Can Minimize Your Risk   Your 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...
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Resolve to Make Files More Secure in the New Year

  Image   Make Resolutions - AND Keep Them Resolutions. 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...
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What is PIPEDA?

  Image PIPEDA, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, is a privacy law that applies to private-sector organizations and businesses throughout Canada. The goal of PIPEDA is to ensure that all provinces and territories protect personal data. This includes: Asking for and obtaining consent when an...
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How Banks are Benefiting from MFT Integration

  Image Trying to integrate and tie diverse internal and external banking applications, branches, systems and trading partners together so they work seamlessly with internal and central banking applications can have your IT department constantly untangling complex knots to ensure transactions and information flows easily. There is a...
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PDPA in Singapore Helps Protect Personal Data

  Image What is the PDPA of 2012? The Personal Data Protection Act of 2012 (PDPA) is a law designed to regulate and enforce the proper collection, use, disclosure, and care of the personal data of citizens in the Republic of Singapore. The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) is charged with establishing policies and for...
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7 Essential Resources on PCI DSS Security

  Image Note from the Editor: This article was originally published in February 2017. It has been updated with resources current to PCI DSS version 3.2.1. Did you know that 80% of organizations are not compliant with PCI DSS requirements? That means, if you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance your company needs to...
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SCP vs. SFTP: Which is Better?

  Image The Secure File Sharing Matchup: Differences Between SFTP and SCP When sizing up SFTP vs. SCP you’ll find that the two file sharing protocols are quite similar. And, for some file transfer situations, they could be nearly interchangeable. Your need for speed, functionality and security will determine which protocol is best...