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How to Identify Cybersecurity Needs for File Transfers

Cybersecurity. The word or concept seems to arise at some point in nearly every news feed lately. Its prominence has risen over the past few years as the impact of inadequate cybersecurity and very determined cybercriminals is so substantial – whether you’re a small business or a large, sprawling enterprise. Before we dive into how to identify your cybersecurity needs, let’s first define...
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What Your Organization Needs to Know About Secure File Transfer

It’s safe to say that the last few years have significantly increased the demand for Secure File Transfer (SFT) solutions such as GoAnywhere MFT . When the pandemic made vast numbers of the working population work from home almost overnight, there was a sudden spike in the requirement for robust and effective SFT. People needed to share documents and other files when working from home, and they...
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Secure Government Files with a Managed File Transfer Solution

If government IT departments were to debate on key cybersecurity issues, one that likely keeps people up at night is how to help ensure their sensitive, often top-secret, data is secure when being sent in and out of their network. While there may be several candidates in the running to address this cybersecurity issue, a leading solution contender would be secure managed file transfer, which can...
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Alliant Credit Union Enhances PCI DSS Compliance with GoAnywhere MFT Agents

Industry: Banking & Finance As a member-owned credit union headquartered in Illinois, Alliant Credit Union processes and tracks over 500 file transfers a week. These file transfers must consistently meet the needs of their members and remain 100% PCI DSS compliant . For years, Alliant Credit Union relied on a combination of solutions and manual file transfers to execute their daily business...
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Ernest Iannucci, Vice President of IT | AF&L Insurance

American Fidelity and Liberty Insurance Ernest Iannucci and his small IT team at American Fidelity and Liberty Insurance found managing data transfers from the SQL database into DB2 tables on the iSeries was eating up significant time and resources, and demand for various reports was heavy, especially at month-end. GoAnywhere helped Ernie's team automate their processes and improve their error...
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SOX Compliance: What You Need to Know

What is SOX or Sarbanes-Oxley Act? SOX, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, was enacted by Congress in 2002 to help provide better security for the general public and consumers. It was structured to improve corporate governance and accountability and to better shield the public from malicious or unintentional misuse of financial data. Remember those well-publicized and substantial financial scandals pre...
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Bruce Collins, Senior Manager of Applications | AAA Cooper Transportation

AAA Cooper Transportation With customers around the country exchanging shipping records, order forms, and more, Bruce Collins from AAA Cooper Transportation needed a solution that would protect those files in motion, and that would help his team streamline their workflows to save time and money. Transcript: My name is Bruce Collins. I work for AAA Cooper Transportation. We're a trucking company...
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Scammers Access 50% of Compromised Accounts Within 12 Hours According to New Research

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON (June 8, 2021) — Fortra's Agari , the market share leader in phishing defense for the enterprise, unveiled today the results of an investigation into the anatomy of compromised email accounts. The threat intelligence brief, titled Anatomy of a Compromised Account , is the first research of its kind, showcasing how threat actors use credential phishing sites to gather...
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Fortra Makes its MFT Solution More Global

MINNEAPOLIS December 10, 2019 – Fortra today announced a new release of its award-winning secure managed file transfer (MFT) software GoAnywhere. The new version makes it easier for customers to share critical information around the world with their trading partners via more global EDI standards and broader language support. Featuring support for EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for...
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How MFT Can Offset the Rising Cost of Data Breaches in 2022 

There’s plenty to be concerned about when it comes to data breaches . At top of mind, there’s always the information that’s stolen, be it customer data, personal emails, confidential files, or any other number of company secrets that are supposed to remain within the company. Then there’s the monetary cost of the data breach – the amount of dollars your company must pay to repair the damage and...
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Adams County Colorado Automates File Transfers Across Multiple Systems with GoAnywhere MFT

Industry: Government As the fifth largest county in Colorado, Adams County keeps its IT team busy managing a multitude of tasks across several different systems. The Challenge: Integration With Diverse Systems While they depend heavily on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP solution for many back office functions, the team needed a simple and consistent way to automate the transfer of data between JD...
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Florida’s Public Defender’s Office 4th Circuit Achieves Successful File Transfers and Secure Collaboration with GoAnywhere MFT

Industry: Public Sector Processing felony and misdemeanor information hasn’t always been an easy task for the Public Defender’s Office - 4th Circuit in Jacksonville, Florida. Originally, the process of receiving, handling, and entering court details into their database relied on paper documents that were delivered by hand and entered manually by full-time data entry employees. But when the county...
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Bristol Hospital Takes No Risks with Sensitive Data, Implements MFT

Industry: Healthcare Delivering the best possible experience for its patients is very important to Bristol Hospital. In addition to receiving excellent care, patients need to trust that the hospital is also protecting their health records and other sensitive data. GoAnywhere MFT from Fortra has allowed Bristol Hospital to ensure that trust with strong data encryption, authentication, and audit...
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Commercial Real Estate Company is Passionate About Property – and Transferring Data Securely

Industry: Commercial Real Estate Property is their passion. One commercial real estate company has a mission to redefine their industry with long-term investments in people and technology that deliver actionable insights and create the best customer experience. They’ve also made it their mission to make sure any data they’re transferring is being transferred securely. This corporation is an...
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GoAnywhere Services

In July of 2015, GoAnywhere Services was upgraded and renamed to GoAnywhere MFT , which is the next evolution in Managed File Transfer technology. GoAnywhere MFT merges the secure FTP server and collaboration features (adapted from GoAnywhere Services) with the workflow automation capabilities (adapted from GoAnywhere Director). This provides customers with a unified browser-based interface...
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Paul Clark, CIO | Braum's Ice Cream

Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores With 280 retail stores, managing ACH and positive pay transactions efficiently and securely with the banks was a critical priority for Paul Clark's team, who had been handling those processes manually on a Windows server. GoAnywhere has allowed them to move everything to the IBM i and automate file transfers with CL programs Transcript of Interview with Paul...
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Bobby Graham, IT Administrator | BlueGrass Mailing Solutions

BlueGrass Mailing, Data, and Fulfillment Services Because Bobby Graham and his team work with hundreds of clients who need to easily transfer files to them so they can fulfill project orders, they needed a more efficient way to track those inbound files and an intuitive portal that customers could use easily, regardless of their level of technical expertise. BlueGrass Mailing chose GoAnywhere...
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GoAnywhere by Fortra Listed by French Supplier CAIH

France’s Centrale d'Achat de l'Informatique Hospitalière (CAIH) prepares and runs public contracts in the field of IT and telecom for its members, public and private non-profit health institutions. Created in 2014, it now has 1,300 members including EFS, FEHAP, FHF, Biomedicine Agency, UniHA, etc. The software publisher is widely present at the European and global level in the health sector for...