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
Your Guide to a Secure Hybrid Cloud
There's a lot to learn about implementing a hybrid cloud environment. Thankfully, this white paper makes it easy. Inside your copy, you'll explore:
Modern cloud statistics
The difference between a hybrid cloud and a full cloud
Who uses a hybrid cloud and when
Considerations for cloud cybersecurity, automation, and encryption
How to use a hybrid cloud in your organization
You'll also learn...
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
Security Risks of File Transfers and How to Reduce Them
By Heath Kath on Tue, 08/23/2022
Transferring files between customers and trading partners, especially files containing sensitive data without appropriate data security protection solutions applied, involves at least some level of risk. You might accidentally send files to the wrong recipient. Or your latest email attachment was sent with an unsecure File Transfer Protocol (FTP)...
Blog
How to Secure Your Data Exchanges
By Heath Kath on Mon, 08/15/2022
Exchanging Data Securely Requires Stepped Up Data Transfer MethodsExchanging data is easy, right? Just grab a file, attach it, and hit “send.” Then sit back and relax. Not so fast! If you want to securely exchange data and protect any sensitive data your files may contain, you need to send them with a secure file transfer solution that protects data...
Blog
5 Things You Should Know About Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Wed, 08/10/2022
As the ongoing digital revolution continues to evolve the ways we do business, even the most standard practices of data security are no longer enough. “We're getting to the point where simply sending confidential information with basic encryption is no longer an acceptable method,” states Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at Cyjax. While managed file transfer ...
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
How GoAnywhere MFT Works with SharePoint
By Chris Spargen on Thu, 04/28/2022
Data and documents are the lifeblood of the business and sharing that data to both external trading partners and internal stakeholders is essential. Discover how GoAnywhere works with one of today’s favorite intranet sites for teams and file sharing: SharePoint.What is SharePoint?SharePoint helps teams meet various business needs by providing...
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 is HITRUST Compliance?
By Heath Kath on Tue, 03/08/2022
HITRUST Compliance Helps to Manage RiskThe 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 in as a...
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...
Blog
Still WFH? Time to Revisit BYOD, Security, and More
By Scott Messick on Thu, 01/20/2022
Work from home, which was once an early-pandemic precaution, is becoming a norm across industries. It is likely that the pandemic has shifted how people work forever, with half of employees expecting to work predominantly from home or in a hybrid home-and-office system going forward.
However, just as in the early days of the pandemic,...
Blog
What is Shadow IT and Why is it a Problem?
By Heath Kath on Thu, 01/13/2022
Shadow IT Doesn’t Lurk in the Shadows – it's PrevalentAlthough it may seem foreign now, there was once a time when an organization’s IT department had complete and total control over the technology being used by the organization. Before software could be purchased, or before anyone clicked download, the IT Director’s blessing was needed.In current...
Blog
What is SOC 2 and Why it Matters for Security
By Heath Kath on Thu, 12/02/2021
There are some things in life that should be a given: rollercoasters are inspected regularly, chefs wash their hands, and your organization’s file transfers are secure.That last is a little more nebulous to see immediate cause-and-effect (it’s not like your rollercoaster car rolling off the tracks or getting food poisoning!) but unsecure file...