While 2024 had a slight decrease (1%) in the number of data breaches, the impact and scale of these breaches overshadowed the actual number of reported breaches (3,158 for the year). In fact, just six breaches accounted for 85 percent of the total number of notices sent to victims, according to digitaltransactions.net.These six breaches alone exposed at least 100 million records each. While...

What an MFT Solution is and What it is NotA Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution is most often defined as a secure and automated platform specifically developed to manage the processes of transferring data between systems, users, and organizations. MFT also encrypts files and provides for tracking and auditing of file movement to help meet compliance requirements. Centralized management of MFT...

Keeping up with the latest compliance or regulatory directives is vital to ensure your organization won’t run afoul of measures designed to keep your organization, your customers, and your trading partners safer from cybersecurity threats. This article outlines where two key directives: NIS2 and DORA stand today and why it’s important to be in compliance. As with any compliance measure introduced,...

Global financial institutions rely on SWIFT every day to exchange information vital to secure payments. However, as members of The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) network know, the network alone isn’t enough to ensure safety. This is why SWIFT rolled out their Customer Security Program (CSP).Within the CSP, SWIFT has established a Customer Security Controls...

PGP encryption is one of the most popular encryption protocols and for several good reasons.Robust Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions offer multiple encryption tools built into their MFT servers such as Encryption at rest, Password Protected ZIP, ZIP with AES Encryption, S/MIME for AS2, AS3, and AS4. Let’s zero in on when and why someone should use PGP Encryption and take a look at how to...

Sure, you can pick up a free, open-source file transfer solution to get most of your files where they need to be. But should you? What happens when you run into a problem, have questions, or need to quickly onboard new users? Commercial-based Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions that offer true customer support vs chat bots and FAQs are invaluable for organizations that depend on reliable, secure...

Over the last few years many articles have been written comparing commercial off-the-shelf Managed File Transfer (MFT) products to open-source and home-grown solutions, including GoAnywhere MFT’s own article on this topic: Pros and Cons of Open-Sourced Managed File Transfer Software.There are many claims both for and against open-source solutions in these types of articles. As a more technical...

Sharing files in most any industry requires some level of security to protect what is often an organization’s most valuable asset – the data entrusted to it. When it comes to the military, the defense industry, or other high-security organizations – government or private – prioritizing the security of files via solutions that offer segmentation opportunities to thwart intrusion is a must...

Sending big files can cause big headaches. And with the expectation of large, growing, and streaming files arriving unscathed, these headaches can become a chronic condition without putting robust software in place – software designed from the bottom up to address the issues that come with sending super-sized files around the world.Why Large Files Can be ProblematicBig data sets, or large files...

Right now, we’re seeing a trend in the marketplace. Large enterprise customers want some sort of middleware to allow them to secure and streamline the connection between their internal systems and their vast external ones (think cloud-based resources and third-party services). In fact, the global managed file transfer market was valued at USD 2 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow to USD 4.9...

Like a triple-locked door or a guard dog on patrol, stopping bad actors before they enter your environment is a critical, proactive step to take to protect what’s yours. Protecting the often-sensitive information entrusted to organizations requires this same approach to security to help avoid data breaches or the mishandling of data and the resulting financial and reputational fallout.Proactive...

There is a lot of hype out there about the dangers of mixing operational technology (OT) with information technology (IT), and a lot of it is true. With both technology environments designed to address different requirements, it’s only natural for these environments to each bring their own unique challenges when it comes to integration and potentially introduce risk.As this study revealed: Nearly...

Deciding Factors for Choosing a File Transfer ProtocolDetermining which file transfer protocol to choose to transfer your organization’s business-critical files is a matter of determining what requirements the task needs or requires. Let’s take a look at how to make the decision between FTP and FTPS.First, here’s the basics:FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is used to exchange files over a...

Lean into Security: Take the Next Step toward Securing Your Organization Learn how a forward-leaning security approach can enhance your security maturity level, reduce risks, and empower cybersecurity leadership.  For any security leader, evolving the cybersecurity strategy is key to advancing your organization’s maturity level. The primary motivation is often risk reduction, but there are other...

Like many countries, France is spearheading its digital transformation through an initiative that mandates the centralized management of electronic invoices (e-invoices) via the Public Billing Portal (PPF). This initiative, in line with broader European Union (EU) efforts toward digitization, is designed to enhance transparency, prevent fraud, and simplify tax reporting. The time to prepare is now...

Sharing files via cloud-based options such as AWS, Box, OneDrive, Dropbox, ShareFile, Google Cloud, and others is the no-brainer option chosen by many organizations. And that choice is made for plenty of good reasons – accessibility, real-time collaboration, scalability, and cost effectiveness, along with version control and less need for hardware.However, despite the user advantages of these...

If you want to see how different protocols such as TCP or UDP perform when it comes to maximizing your network capacity, it’s important to test network throughput appropriately and with the correct mode engaged.TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a reliable protocol used most often for emails and web traffic. UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is the protocol most organizations rely upon when speed...

Streamlining and automating the PGP encryption process for organizations on the IBM i platform can help ease time pressures on IT staff and in turn, reduce risks that lurk around the corner when teams rely on error-prone manual tasks and cumbersome scripts and programming to encrypt and monitor file transfers. There’s a better, a more secure option using a Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution. PGP...

Short of direct conversations with IT peers, reviews on third-party review sites can serve as one of the most valuable resources for IT teams when it comes to choosing what software would best suit an organization’s needs.IT pros would be wise to give a nod to the genuine feedback that can be gleaned from reputable sites such as PeerSpot, SoftwareReviews, G2, and Capterra when sourcing solutions...

The purpose of Australia’s Essential Eight is to provide a clear, easy-to-follow set of guidelines that can be applied to protect Australian organizations and their information technology systems against cyberattacks.The Essential Eight Maturity Model helps support the implementation of Essential Eight principles and provides a transparent assessment of how easy an organization’s systems are to...