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Complying with Data Security Requirements
Organizations of all sizes work to adhere to industry security standards and emerging personal data protection requirements, but without the right solutions and policies, manually gathering the required data and creating audit reports can add hundreds of hours to the IT workload.
Some of the most-discussed data security compliance requirements and regulations include:
- GDPR
- GLBA
- HIPAA and HITECH
- PCI DSS
- SOX
Discover how to comply with these and other data security compliance requirements.
How GoAnywhere MFT Helps with Compliance
GoAnywhere MFT can help you meet a variety of security standards by providing file transfer encryption technologies, file transfer monitoring, detailed audit logs and reporting, granular user permissions, and flexible options for sending files securely.
Compliance & Cybersecurity
Security regulations are in place for a reason. Misunderstanding or failing to meet current data security standards can — and do — lead to costly data breaches. Following regulations and enforcing compliance keeps your organization on track to safeguard data and detect violations. The importance of compliance in an organization can be tied back to cybersecurity. Compliance requirements often outline the minimum conditions to be considered secure — a compliance blueprint that organizations can follow to achieve a strong cybersecurity stance.
Common Data Security Compliance Standards
This collection of resources is designed to help you stay on top of the latest compliance information so you can strengthen security in your organization and face compliance audits with confidence.
Jump to a specific data security regulation page:
PCI DSS
What is PCI DSS?
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) works to ensure credit card data is stored, processed, and transmitted in a secure way. Learn more about how GoAnywhere helps achieve PCI compliant file transfer.
HIPAA & HITECH
What is HIPAA and HITECH?
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) serves to safeguard medical information with a series of data privacy and security provisions. Learn how GoAnywhere helps with HIPAA compliant file transfer and file sharing.
GDPR
What is GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was designed to protect the personal data of EU-based individuals, while harmonizing data privacy laws throughout the EU. Learn more about how GoAnywhere assists with GDPR compliant file transfer.
FISMA
What is FISMA?
The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) establishes a set of security guidelines that help to reduce the security risk to federal data. Learn more about how GoAnywhere helps with FISMA compliant file transfer.
What is Data Security Compliance?
Data security compliance rests on the idea that there are steps organizations can take to safeguard the data they collect and process to ensure it is secure. Different organizations – governments, governing bodies, and industry-related groups – establish basic guidelines that businesses should follow to safeguard the data they collect. Complying with regulations often means ensuring your organization is using secure file transfer protocols, encryption processes, and today’s technology.
Keep Reading: How to Help Ensure Compliance with Data Privacy Laws
What is Compliant File Sharing & Transfer?
Compliant file sharing varies from requirement to requirement, but most often requires using encrypted connections to share files with trading partners both on-premises and in the cloud, encrypting files, and ensuring data integrity. Proving compliance typically involves demonstrating secure data transfer methods, and providing audit logs to an auditor. Some solutions, including GoAnywhere MFT, track file movements and give you the ability to pull the logs as needed. Compliant file sharing comes down to awareness: who is viewing your files, where are your files moving to, and are they secure during transfer and in storage?
Compliant file transfers should an important piece of your cybersecurity strategy. Most compliance requirements outline the minimum standards that organizations should follow to safeguard data. Following — or exceeding — requirements and regulations when it comes to file transfer can help you avoid interception and tampering, as well as reduce the risk of data breaches.
Maintaining Compliance
Maintaining compliance varies by requirement. Many compliance requirements outline guidelines for data collection, user access, file transfer, and security both in transit and in motion. Organizations need technical, administrative, and managerial controls in place, as well as organizational policies, to fully enforce and ensure compliance from the top down. Your business can comply by:
- Developing a procedure to quickly locate and delete personal data about a person
- Simplifying your method of safely disposing of customer information when requested to do so
- Ensuring you can appropriately audit your records to find all personal data, including any external companies you’ve shared information with
See how compliance requirements vary:
- GDPR and Data Privacy After Brexit: What's Next?
- Australia's CDR: What is it and Why Does it Matter?
- HIPAA and HITECH: How GoAnywhere MFT Helps the Healthcare Industry Thrive
- PDPA in Singapore Helps Protect Personal Data
- What is Canada's PIPEDA and Who does it Impact?
- What is the California Consumer Privacy Act?
Latest Compliance Resources
Read the most recent compliance-related blogs from GoAnywhere. Can’t find the compliance requirement or regulation you’re looking for? Contact us to learn how GoAnywhere can help you.
Data Sheets for Types of Compliance
You need compliant file transfer, and GoAnywhere has the solution. Get the detailed specs on how GoAnywhere MFT helps achieve compliant file transfer no matter your industry or region:
| Type of Compliance | About | Get the Datasheet |
|---|---|---|
| Overview — How GoAnywhere Helps | Learn how GoAnywhere MFT can help you manage and secure the exchange of private data in order to comply with a variety of compliance laws and regulations. | Meeting Security Standards with GoAnywhere MFT |
| FISMA | An effective managed file transfer solution is critical for helping government agencies meet strict security regulations and policies. | Simplified, Secure and Automated Managed File Transfer Solutions for FISMA |
| GDPR | GoAnywhere offers several popular encryption technologies to help businesses secure sensitive data and comply with the GDPR. | Meeting GDPR Requirements with GoAnywhere MFT |
| Healthcare — Europe-specific | Learn how GoAnywhere MFT gives healthcare organizations a safe, streamlined way to send files and sensitive ePHI and HER data to hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and insurance companies. | Meeting European Compliance Requirements for Healthcare |
| PCI DSS — General | PCI DSS applies to every organization around the world that processes credit or debit card information. GoAnywhere is designed to help you meet PCI DSS compliance requirements. | Meeting PCI DSS Requirements with GoAnywhere |
| PCI DSS — Banking & Finance | Banks and financial agencies are starting to move to managed file transfers like GoAnywhere MFT to simplify, secure, and automate their sensitive data transfers. | PCI-Compliant File Transfers for Banking & Finance Organizations |
Top Compliance Case Studies & Use Cases
See how GoAnywhere MFT helps organizations in all industries meet compliance requirements.
Global Health Organization Streamlines PCI DSS Compliance for File Transfers
Industry: Healthcare
Summary: Moving from CoreFTP and WinSCP file transfers may seem challenging. See how this global healthcare IT company found time and cost savings with GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer and never looked back.
Think Mutual Bank Uses GoAnywhere MFT for PCI DSS Compliance
Industry: Banking & Finance
Summary: When Think Bank needed a way to transfer data between systems, they looked for a solution that was easy to implement, helped with PCI-compliant file transfers, and had robust functionality. Cue GoAnywhere MFT: a solution that does all this and more.
University of Tennessee Medical Center Uses MFT to Improve the Security of Sensitive Patient Data
Industry: Healthcare
Summary: Discover how the University of Tennessee Medical Center streamlined its file transfer processes, increased data security for sensitive PHI, and simplified vendor connections with GoAnywhere MFT.
MFT Helps Reduce Fortegra's File Transfer Risk
Industry: Insurance
Summary: Credit insurers, like Fortegra exchange many sensitive financial files weekly. By switching to GoAnywhere MFT from a legacy system, they quickly realized ease-of use, encryption, automation, reporting, and more.
Compliance Webinars On Demand
Meeting Compliance Requirements with GoAnywhere
Achieve compliant file sharing with a secure MFT solution. Discover how to meet secure file transfer requirements with GoAnywhere MFT. This webinar covers different data security compliance standards, the importance of compliance in an organization, and how MFT can help you comply with the proper regulations.
Meeting GDPR Compliance with GoAnywhere
Boost your knowledge of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and watch a live demo on how GoAnywhere can help you achieve compliance with secure file transfer.
Ensure File Transfer Compliance with GoAnywhere
With GoAnywhere, you can eliminate cumbersome custom programming and scripting normally required for data transfers. MFT can also improve the quality and security of the files you send in-house or to remote locations, trading partners, other businesses, or the cloud. Data security compliance is important in any organization, and GoAnywhere MFT can help you achieve compliant file sharing, file transfer, and more:
- Role-based administration and permissions: Keeps access privileges with the right users, controls password complexity requirements and sets expiration dates.
- Secure connections for transmitting sensitive data
- Strong encryption key management that you control
- Centralized control of file transfers
- Secure mail module for sending files using email with HTTPS download links
- Detailed auditing and reporting of all transfer activity, drastically simplifying the reporting burden during an audit
- Cloud solutions that conform to guidelines
With an auditable solution with secure file transfers, secure email, separation of permissions by user role, and at rest encryption, GoAnywhere MFT can help you achieve or advance your file transfer compliance. Learn more today.
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