Every business engages in some kind of information exchange, whether it’s a small retailer attaching an invoice to an email or a hospital sending hundreds of patient records between departments. Some methods of exchanging files, like a basic FTP server or a file sharing app, seem like an inexpensive way to deal with your transfers. In the long run, however, the shortfalls of these tools will...

Organizations today are challenged with maximizing their resources in a fiercely competitive environment. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Lost time is never found again.” This is a problem that IT departments of all sizes have become familiar with . Take, for example, an IT staff member who spends countless hours waiting on inbound and outbound transfers. Or there’s the professional who still...

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SHA-2 and TLS Security for AS2 Transfers It’s crucial for organizations to take the time to upgrade the security used to protect their AS2 data transfers. In order to be compliant with the latest security standards, you need to be using a modern AS2 solution. Related Reading: AS2 Protocol Software for Client & Server Transfers The Story of SHA-1 SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm) is a cryptographic...

For those that ask "What is AS2?," AS2 is an abbreviation for Applicability Statement 2, which is a popular file transfer protocol that allows businesses to exchange data with their trading partners. AS2 protocol combines the use of several secure and widely used technologies including HTTPS , SSL Certificates , S/MIME, and file hashing. By utilizing the strengths of each of them, AS2 has become...

Note from the Editor: This article shares highlights from Info-Tech Research Group's Managed File Transfer Vendor Landscape. Read our article about the 2021 Info-Tech MFT Data Quadrant Report for an updated landscape, or download the latest copy . The Managed File Transfer Landscape Info-Tech Research Group, an IT research and analysis company, has released a report naming GoAnywhere Managed File...

Note from the Editor: This blog is a recap of an older webinar. To view the most recent webinars, you can do so here . Meet MFT The term MFT (Managed File Transfer) is not new, but you may have begun to hear it more frequently. Changes in data security and transmission regulations have brought this established technology to the forefront, but what exactly does it entail? GoAnywhere MFT hosted...

Keep Your Files Secure In the battle to secure information, it helps to know a little bit about how it can be compromised. Using FTP is one way to expose critical vulnerabilities and can allow credentials to be hacked. However, these holes in security can also be easily closed if you know how. How Hackers Discover Vulnerabilities Here's how hackers could access sensitive data sent via FTP. With...

Yes. Emailing someone is still one of the easiest ways to share data. However, there are some important caveats to sharing files this way that can put your organization’s file transfers at risk. Email File Transfer Challenges These are the four big challenges that organizations should be aware of when transmitting files via email. Email is sent "in the clear" meaning that it is not encrypted...

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 evaluating risk management for their clients, they often neglect risk mitigation...

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 needed, and were dismayed to discover that their confidence — and their data...

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 sending quite a few files every day, how do you organize all these...

By now, most companies have gotten the message that their data—as well as the sensitive data belonging to customers and partners—needs reliable protection from unauthorized access. The ever growing regulatory environment is making it more and more painful for any company who does not take their data security seriously. The challenges of data security The difference between the desire to keep data...

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 was controlled by the basic User ID and password scenario. At this time, the...