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What's the Difference Between AS2, AS3, and AS4?

  Image If you think these three protocols are simply sequential updates from the 1990s’ AS1 protocol you’d be mistaken. Each protocol brings its own distinct features to the data transmission table. Here’s a few key differences between them. What is AS2? AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is a protocol specification used to transmit...
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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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Get Acquainted with Our Glossary

  Image   Meet Our Glossary Tech terminology is always expanding and growing, and it’s not slowing down any time soon as the world becomes more reliant on technology in the workforce and beyond. Finding the right outlet for exploring and learning technical terms can be a hit or miss, but GoAnywhere’s glossary is a knockout. Why a...
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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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How to Evaluate MFT Vendors

  Image How to Evaluate MFT Vendors You know you want one – a powerful managed file transfer (MFT) solution – that enterprise solution that’ll make life easier, support multiple secure protocols, help you meet compliance regulations, alert you when transfers fail, restart them, and more. But, how do you know which MFT solution is...
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How Are Your Peers Utilizing Automation in GoAnywhere?

  Image   The Uses are Endless It’s no secret that automation is a great way to boost your business. It can save time, money, and important resources. But how is it being used by your peers on a day-to-day basis? Read on for some examples straight from your peers’ own personal experiences automating their file transfer processes. ...
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5 Projects You Could Tackle with a GoAnywhere Trial

  Image It's happened to us all – you start a free software trial, only to get stuck at step 2: what to do first? Plotting a plan of attack before your first login can help you get the most out of your limited time with the product (and might even help you down the line when you're making the case for adoption to your internal...
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Is Automation All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

  Image Automation is Key We’ve all had our moments of being skeptical when something sounds too good to be true. However, automation is no joking matter. Automation is a great way to boost your business by saving time, money, and important resources.       What is Automation? Automation is the use of electronics and/or...
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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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8 Surprising Ways to Use GoAnywhere's Secure Folders Module

  Image   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...
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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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Can Your MFT Solution Do These 20 Things?

  Image   The Possibilities Are Vast GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) can do so much more than just transfer sensitive data securely. Do you know if your MFT solution can do these 20 things? 1. It Can Integrate with Applications GoAnywhere offers out-of-the-box Connectors that let you easily integrate with the external...
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What is an MFT Server and How Do I Use It?

  Image An MFT server is any server that is using a managed file transfer (MFT) solution to improve data transfers. An MFT solution is software that simplifies server-to-server file transfers, and typically encrypts, automates, and monitors processes, whether inside an organization or to outside trading partners. What is MFT and Why...
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Real-Life Ways GoAnywhere Saves Your Peers Time, Money, and Resources

  Image It’s Time to Get Real Let’s be real – time, money, and resources are all equally valuable in the business world. If you’re looking for a solution that can help you substantially save all three in your everyday life, look no further than GoAnywhere. Time After Time Time after time, GoAnywhere can help you maximize the time...
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Making a Case for MFT

  Image You’re not on trial when you present a new tool or software to internal stakeholders, but it can certainly feel that way some days. Making the case to adopt managed file transfer software can also be trying; while the solution is evident to you, your audience may need some convincing. Read all our tips or check out the...
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Should You Use a File Sharing App?

  Image 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...
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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...
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Transferring Big Files: Everything You Need to Know

  Image We’ve all done it. Held our breath, crossed our fingers, or simply hoped for the best when hitting “send” to electronically share a large file. With a solid managed file transfer (MFT) in place, that critical keystroke doesn’t have to be so tense. With MFT, users can confidently move previously unwieldly files, knowing that...
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What is Secure File Sharing?

  Image 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...