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Virtual Folder Highlight GoAnywhere Services 3.0

Omaha, Neb - September 26, 2012 Accessing files quickly across growing storage networks while ensuring data remains secure is crucial for any company in today's business environment. The latest release of GoAnywhere Services 3.0 with its new "Virtual Folders" feature and network shares option makes secure online access to information seamless for the end user and easy to...
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How to Build a Framework for HIPAA and HITECH Compliance

By Brian Pick on Mon, 08/27/2012
  Image HIPAA, established in 1996, was signed into law to outline the appropriate ways to use and disclose patient health information. Read on to learn how to develop a HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant IT framework for your organization.   Why Does HITECH Exist? HITECH laws were enacted to up the ante on healthcare organizations to...
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Outlook 2010 Plugin Now Available for GoAnywhere Secure Mail

Omaha, Neb - August 1, 2012 Download PDF Organizations whose employees have been using email to send confidential files have realized the dangers that unsecure email can pose. That's why Linoma Software added a Secure Mail module to its popular secure FTP server, GoAnywhere Services, part of the GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software suite. Released in February, 2012...
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Linoma Software [now HelpSystems] Adds Japanese Firm to Team of Global Partners

Omaha, Neb - July 17, 2012 As Linoma Software continues to expand its global sales initiatives, it has added yet another sales partner to its team. Linoma president Bob Luebbe is pleased to announce a partnership with SOLPAC, a leading software and consulting firm based in Tokyo, Japan. "The IBM Power Systems market is going strong in Japan," Luebbe said, "and when this...
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Addressing HIPAA and HITECH Compliance Challenges

By Brian Pick on Tue, 06/19/2012
  Image HIPAA and HITECH regulations were designed and enacted to increase the security surrounding personal health information from those who should not have access to it. Next to finance, the healthcare industry is one of the most regulated industries around. While debates on the cost, structure, and delivery of healthcare...
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GoAnywhere Adds FIPS 140-2 Validated Encryption Module

Omaha, Neb - May 22, 2012             Organizations can now secure their data transmissions using FIPS 140-2 validated encryption with the GoAnywhere managed file transfer solution from Linoma Software [now Fortra]. FIPS 140-2 is a critical compliance requirement for US federal government and state agencies, as well as for those companies that exchange sensitive data with the...
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Are Insurance Companies Managing Their Risk of Data Breach?

By Brian Pick on Wed, 05/09/2012
  Image   Insurance companies are the experts at analyzing and managing risk. They identify, quantify, and set pricing based on the calculated costs of risk. Naturally, the higher the perceived risk, the higher the cost to mitigate the potential losses.   Yet, here is the irony. While those in the insurance industry excel at...
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Is Your Company Letting Data Slip Through the Cracks?

By Brian Pick on Mon, 04/16/2012
  Image Many Americans have spent the last few days frantically searching for receipts and other documentation to finish their taxes before April 15th — only to realize they get a one-month reprieve this year. Despite that sigh of relief, there's no doubt that some of those people thought they knew exactly where to find what they...
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How Important is Auditing Your File Transfers?

By Brian Pick on Mon, 01/30/2012
  Image 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...
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SFTP vs. FTPS: What's the Best Protocol for Secure FTP?

By Brian Pick on Thu, 10/20/2011
Image What is Secure FTP? SFTP vs. FTPS: Secure FTP Authentication SFTP vs. FTPS: Secure FTP Implementation SFTP vs. FTPS: Speed SFTP vs. FTPS: Security Watch a Demo An increasing number of organizations are looking to move away from transferring data with FTP (a standard file transfer protocol). In the beginning stages of...
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Driving Securely Through the Cloud

By Brian Pick on Mon, 05/23/2011
  Image Cloud computing is not for everything and not for everyone, but it has made a permanent mark in the lexicon of technology services. And there is a lot of hype around cloud computing and what it can do for organizations. To be fair, it is a very powerful tool. But it’s important to work out how you can use it most effectively...
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Are You Next in Line for a Data Breach?

By Brian Pick on Mon, 04/25/2011
  Image A Data Breach is Closer Than You Think As the percentage of data breaches increase, the risk of organizations losing your sensitive data also increases. No one wants to receive the news that some or all of their personally identifiable information (PII) was stolen. Sure, there are people who are victims of various phishing...
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The Culture of Data Security

By Brian Pick on Mon, 03/21/2011
  Image Here at Fortra, we hear a lot of buzz about protecting both customer and company data, but it's alarming how many IT departments and enterprise users are still not protecting their data correctly. According to the Ponemon Institute, fewer than 50 percent of organizations have comprehensive encryption protection in place. ...
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What Makes FTP an Outdated Security Method

By Brian Pick on Mon, 01/24/2011
  Image 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...
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Managed File Transfer Solution for IBM System p and System z

(October 20th, 2009) - Linoma Software [now Fortra] is proud to announce that its GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution has been validated to run on IBM System p and System z platforms. Linoma worked with IBM through a special program, named Chiphopper, for the validation testing of GoAnywhere. Through the Chiphopper program, IBM provided Linoma's engineers with the...
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Linoma Software [now HelpSystems] release New Solution for Managed File Transfers

(Ashland, NE) - August 24, 2009 - Linoma Software [now Fortra] proudly releases GoAnywhere Services - a new collection of secure data transfer services for your enterprise. GoAnywhere Services allows trading partners (e.g. customers, employees, vendors, etc.) to securely connect to your organization for exchanging files, documents and other types of data. This innovative...