Case Study
WellSouth’s Primary Care is in Health and Keeping Their Communities’ Data Safe with GoAnywhere MFT
WellSouth is dedicated to the well-being of others and servicing their communities with better health and improved care. Along with their commitment to the health of their local communities, WellSouth is also committed to keeping data secure and complying with key regulations.
Guide
How Managed File Transfer Addresses HIPAA Requirements for ePHI
As the healthcare industry transitions from primarily using paper documents and patient charts to electronic health records (EHR), the need for a secure and reliable method of sharing electronic protected health information (ePHI) has increased.
Get the guide to learn how a managed file transfer solution can help meet HIPAA's PHI requirements and protect your organization internal protected...
Guide
HIPAA Data Security Best Practices
Working in partnership with HealthIT Security, Fortra compiled and curated this informative white paper on the top technical, administrative, and policy expectations stemming from HIPAA.
Gain a strong understanding of the types of privacy and security measures that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will be looking for so your organization can better...
Guide
Five Ways to Improve ePHI for HIPAA/HITECH with Managed File Transfer
The healthcare industry is under increasing pressure to make health information more accessible to both patients and healthcare providers, while simultaneously ensuring that patient data remains private and secure.
Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions can provide the security, control, and visibility that can help the healthcare industry address the current challenges related to the electronic...
Blog
What is High Latency File Transfer and Why Should You Use It
Thu, 08/18/2022
When taking off on a vacation, the less time spent traveling the better, right? A non-stop flight, versus one with iffy connections and layovers is the way to go whenever possible. There are fewer hiccups, and the overall experience is simply better. File transfers operating in a high latency network can be a bit like that multi-stop flight, with delays, missed connections, and a general bog down...
Blog
Common Questions About Fast File Transfer
Thu, 07/28/2022
There is no doubt we live in an information-intensive world, one in which getting the right data quickly is often pivotal to an organization’s success. Moving files from point A to point B requires many considerations, but when it comes to large, mission-critical files that need to reach recipients around the world as fast as possible, it’s time to move beyond options such as Dropbox and Google...
Blog
What Do Emerging Data Privacy Laws in the U.S. Mean for You?
By Heath Kath on Tue, 07/26/2022
What is Data Privacy?
One can think of data privacy as all the processes involved in how confidential or personal information or data is collected, used, and shared or governed. No singular policy governs data privacy, with requirements and penalties varying across states and countries. Data privacy laws are legal constructs that set clear lines...
Blog
Ship to Shore Fast File Transfer: 3 Offshore Fleet Communication Case Studies
Thu, 06/16/2022
Data transfer has hurdles for any industry, but remote file transfer from ship to shore must overcome additional obstacles. Even as data collection tools become more powerful and generate bigger datasets than ever before, transfer tools have improved at a slower pace, and are not often built with mid-ocean data transfer in mind.
Discover how three organizations avoided this common pitfall with...
Blog
NAB Show Recap: The Power of Fast File Transfer in Media and Broadcast
Thu, 05/19/2022
Global Visionaries Converged at the 2022 NAB Show
The recent annual NAB Show was, as usual, a fantastic event to get a bead on industry happenings and meet the movers and shakers pushing our notions of what’s possible. The event attracts media, entertainment, and technology companies looking level up the process of creating and distributing content for global audiences.
NAB announced that this...
Blog
How Fast File Transfer Helps Natural Resources Companies
Thu, 04/28/2022
Moving data from the field to the office often runs into speedbumps like slow connections, dropped packets, or even failed backups. In the energy and natural resources industries, moving data is even more difficult due to the size and complexity of data collected on-site.
What can organizations do to send big data reliably – and quickly? One answer is to use a fast file transfer solution.
What...
Blog
How to Streamline Secure Data Exchanges
By Heath Kath on Tue, 04/26/2022
Secure Data Exchanges Don't Have to Sacrifice Efficiency
Hitting “send” is as routine and frequent as sipping on coffee for many employees. And uploading a file to a third-party, vendor, or another colleague happens with that same automatic mind-set. Outside of the IT team, many employees don’t actually give a lot of thought to the journey of...
Blog
HIPAA vs. HITRUST: The Key Differences
By Heath Kath on Wed, 04/13/2022
What is HIPAA?
HIPPA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a federal law that addresses regulatory compliance for healthcare organizations. HIPAA sets the standard for protecting sensitive patient data and applies to any company that deals with protected health information (PHI).
HIPAA requires healthcare...
Blog
What Makes Audio and Music Files So Big?
Thu, 03/17/2022
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?
Yes, but without the right tools to capture, process, and send the sound, no one will ever know. The same goes for any audio file: even with the right tools, it’s nearly impossible to capture, process, and send a sound with 100 percent accuracy. And even with the right tools, certain choices you make can sacrifice sound quality.
Sound has been...
Press Release
Fortra to Acquire Alert Logic to Enable Customers to Address Cybersecurity Skills Shortage with Hybrid IT Approach
MINNEAPOLIS March 9, 2022—Fortra announced today it has signed a merger agreement to acquire Alert Logic, a well-known leader in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Alert Logic works as a seamless extension of security teams, augmenting existing cybersecurity resources and technology to safeguard on-premise, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid infrastructures. The company’s MDR solution focuses on...
Blog
What is HITRUST Compliance?
By Heath Kath on Tue, 03/08/2022
HITRUST Compliance Helps to Manage Risk
The secure storage and transfer of sensitive data is of the utmost importance to the healthcare industry. Data security and complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is paramount, yet doing so can often be complex and difficult to maintain.
This is where HITRUST comes...
Blog
Cybersecurity Concerns in Healthcare in 2022
By Heath Kath on Tue, 02/22/2022
Every year the healthcare industry is greeted with headlines stating that ‘last year was the most-breached ever.’ And that trend is unlikely to stop in 2022. The healthcare industry has historically been one of the most-targeted by hackers, and one of the most breached by internal actors. Key reasons why include vast amounts of extra sensitive...