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How Important is Auditing Your File Transfers?

By Brian Pick on Mon, 01/30/2012
  When you send someone a file using FTP, how do you know (and later prove) that it was successfully sent? Consider the Complexities It might be possible to save a screenshot as long as the process was simple and you can see all the commands on a single screen. But what if your commands start getting complex? And if you start sending quite a few...
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Analysis On Improving Throughput Part 1: Disk IO

Tue, 01/17/2012
This post is the first of a series and continues in Part 2: Memory In light of the release of FileCatalyst Direct v3.0, I thought I’d write a few articles about the road to achieving 10Gbps speeds. It seems to me the best place to start is with the endpoint of the transfer: the storage media. Why? Before we even think about the file transfer protocol, we have to be sure that our disks can keep up...
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Reverse Proxy DMZ Secure Gateways Might Be the Missing Link in Your MFT Strategy

By Brian Pick on Mon, 10/31/2011
  By now, most companies have gotten the message that their data—as well as the sensitive data belonging to customers and partners—needs reliable protection from unauthorized access. The ever growing regulatory environment is making it more and more painful for any company who does not take their data security seriously. The challenges of data...
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What Makes FTP an Outdated Security Method

By Brian Pick on Mon, 01/24/2011
  Why is FTP an Outdated Protocol? FTP was designed as an easy mechanism for exchanging files between computers at a time when networks were new and information security was an immature science. In the 1970s, if you wanted to secure a server from unwanted access, you simply locked the computer room door. User access to data was controlled by the basic...
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Meeting Compliance Regulations and Privacy Laws for Sensitive Data Transfers

By Brian Pick on Mon, 01/10/2011
  Comply with Data Security Requirements Highly sensitive data is exchanged between organizations on a constant basis making data security compliance more vital than ever to keep communication flowing. For instance, if a business routinely transmits financial information to their bank including payroll direct deposits and ACH payments, these...
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CriticalPast Introduces One of the World’s Largest Online Archives

Mon, 06/07/2010
On the 3rd of June, CriticalPast announced the launch of CriticalPast.com, an absolutely astonishing archive of historic footage and photographic images:  From the press release on Business Wire: CriticalPast’s library of more than 57,000 video clips is drawn from government sources and digitized, making it easy for users to search CriticalPast’s...
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