Resources

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Strengthen Your Defense: Updated GoAnywhere Hardening Best Practices

Strengthen your security defenses. Our Strengthen Your Defense: Updated GoAnywhere Best Practices customer webinar on zeroes in on GoAnywhere’s updated hardening and architecture guides, which details the best practices and configurations to help you further boost the security of your GoAnywhere environment. Fortra’s Chris Spargen, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, covers: Updates to the most...
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Sharing Financial Files: Benefits of MFT

Financial file matters matter. Not only are these files a top priority to the banks and financial institutions that handle millions of transactions daily, they also matter to the industry’s compliance regulators, and to the public trusting that their financial information is secured. How organizational and personal financial data is handled and secured is a heavy responsibility, most often landing...
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Protecting the Supply Chain: Strong Bricks Make Strong Walls

When I was young, we had toy bricks made of cardboard that were great for tiny hands . They were lightweight and easy to stack, and we created many walls, forts, and towers. As wonderful as these were , they would do little to protect against an attacking army. For that, we’d need strong material and sound construction for defense . Quarried stone and stout mortar were excellent for those medieval...
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MFT Software Demos: Maximize Your Time

When it comes to selecting software that can have a major impact on how your organization conducts business and secures its most valuable data, you can look at the process much like you do when considering a new vehicle. While a test drive of that shiny new ride can help confirm your expectations for speed and performance, a one-on-one demonstration by a professional highly experienced in that car...
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Transferring Government Files: MFT Addresses Biggest Challenges

Whether big government or small, assuring the security of files in the public sector is of utmost importance for security, as well as assuring any information from citizens is protected. According to 2021 US Census data, there are 90,000 government entities . Protecting the data these agencies handle is admittedly a big lift. Not only are government agencies, military departments, or contractors...
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FTP vs. SFTP: Considerations for Secure File Transfer

Businesses today rely on the safe transfer of data to operate securely in today’s digital economy. There are several protocols that can be used for this purpose, and each offers a different benefit to your organization. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been around longest and is the default file transfer method for many companies with legacy architecture. Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a...
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Zero Trust File Transfer: Why Bundled Solutions Make Sense

Feeling good about sending your business-critical files securely via managed file transfer (MFT)? You should. It’s a secure, streamlined way to get sensitive information from one place to another, with encryption embedded into the solution, automation features to help goofproof the process, and robust security applied to files both while they are in motion and at rest. But do you know what happens...
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Take the Risk Out of Email with Secure Mail

One “Oh, crud” moment. That’s all it takes for sensitive information like social security numbers or credit card data to fall into the wrong hands. Maybe an employee used unsecure email to send a confidential file to a trading partner, or an email was sent to individuals not authorized to receive the files attached. Now your organization is vulnerable to the possibility of a data breach.
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Why Choose AS2 for Secure File Transfers?

Securing all the data your organization exchanges is a need, not a want in today’s cybersecurity environment. To minimize the risk of a security breach – whether intentionally malicious, or accidental through user error – takes the proverbial village of proactive measures. One of these is employing strong protocols such as AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) when exchanging files. AS2 should be a...
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Boost Your Cloud Security with MFT

Whether your files reside in the public cloud, private cloud, or within a hybrid environment, GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) delivers the security and control you need to move data confidently between systems, locations, users, and trading partners.
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Considerations for Cloud File Transfers

Whether your organization is debating on moving your file transfer process entirely to the cloud, adopting a hybrid environment, or using a hosted SaaS solution, review the considerations below to help better clarify and get the organizational support needed for a cloud-based file transfer solution. There are no absolute right or wrong answers to the questions that may arise as you check out your...
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HIPAA Compliance and File Transfer: What You Need to Know

HIPAA Compliance and File Transfer: What You Need to Know The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) secures the Protected Health Information (PHI) of healthcare system users within the United States. Since the Omnibus Rule went into effect in 2013, millions of healthcare “business associates” have been included under the compliance umbrella, facing the same requirements...
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Fast File Transfer: Obstacles and Options

Fast, faster, and fastest. With technology comes the benefit of speed to get through tasks easier and yes, faster. Transferring files is no exception. Organizations want and need files to get to their destination quickly and reliably. What Might Slow Down a File Transfer? Getting that business-critical file where it needs to be can sometimes be slower than expected. Here’s just a few of the many...
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11 Popular File Transfer Protocols Explained

Edited on 5/8/2024 Check out the brief video below, which quickly covers these 11 file transfer protocols, their uses, and the security that comes along with them: 1. FTP 7. TCP 2. FTPS 8. AS2 3. SFTP 9. AS3 4. SCP 10. AS4 5 HTTP 11. PeSIT 6. HTTPS As organizations have become more cloud-based, connected, and remote what was once easily done – transferring files securely – has become exponentially...
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Info-Tech Rates GoAnywhere Highly

GoAnywhere is an industry leader according to the well-respected Info-Tech Research Group. Read on to download the MFT Category Report and learn what goes into this rating.
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Protecting Vital Government Information with MFT

When it comes to information security, few industries top the government – at all levels – when it comes to requirements and compliance designed to protect the sensitive data it collects, manages, and exchanges. And while it may seem like just more red tape, these standards and requirements are for the benefit of the people as well as the organizations with which the governments interact. Not only...
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How to Further Protect Your MFT Server Identity

Securing your important files in transit and at rest is vital to protecting your data. There are, however, additional methods that can guard your GoAnywhere MFT server identity and keep your documents safely in your private network. The GoAnywhere Gateway provides the following security, performance and load balancing benefits: Forward and reverse proxy capabilities Help with meeting your...
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How MFT Helps Move Large Files

What is Needed to Move Large Files? Big files need big solutions, or rather solutions capable of reliably and securely moving files in and out of an organization. Instead of relying on free or open-sourced solutions that “might” move a big file, consider your organization’s needs around file sizes, security, encryption, compliance requirements for auditing and reporting file transfer activity...
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Fortra’s MFT Annual Upgrades & Health Check Bundle

The Annual Upgrades & Health Check Bundle provides dedicated resources to update your organization’s GoAnywhere environment to the latest version. It includes a review of your organization’s upgrade strategy plan by a Technical Consultant, a Health Check of your system, and a consultation on risks and compatibility issues associated with an upgrade.
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Collaboration Tools Like Box.com vs. MFT: What Do You Really Need?

Collaboration tools like Box.com and managed file transfer (MFT) tools like GoAnywhere MFT, are not the same. Both, however, have unique advantages, depending on your organization’s requirements around data. Box is a cloud-based tool for organizational teams to collaborate, manage, and store content. GoAnywhere MFT is a secure managed file transfer solution used by organizations to secure...