Archive for Managed File Transfer
January 5, 2011 at 8:00 am · Filed under Customer Experience, Managed File Transfer, Sales Team
By Bill Buie
The ability to quickly, reliably and securely transfer digital files to customers and partners is critical to the success of any business operation. Unfortunately, managing and delivering large amounts of sensitive content across back-end systems remains an ongoing challenge for many organizations.
The need to improve the efficiency and security of digital transfers was never more apparent than for our customer, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Any delays in sending critical photographic evidence from its on-site mobile laptop to the forensic lab not only caused significant problems in the Crime Scene Unit’s ability to do its job, but also it could make the difference between a criminal conviction and a cold case.
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December 21, 2010 at 12:39 pm · Filed under Managed File Transfer, User Experience
By Todd Doerr
There is an extremely common procedure that has a significant impact on a business’s sales process: the ability to efficiently exchange large digital files with their partners and customers. Many companies dealing with sensitive or regulated data deal with this problem, but often fail to take into account the significant impact this has on key business processes.
For one global memory chip maker, transferring files that were either too sensitive or too large for email often resulted in the company coming up with alternative solutions to manually send large files to their customers and partners. This time-consuming process not only delayed receiving and delivering sales orders, but also put sensitive customer files at higher risk.
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December 15, 2010 at 8:30 am · Filed under Cloud Computing, Managed File Transfer, Sales Team
By Bill Buie
For years, the talk about the “cloud” has been about as puffy, well, as a cloud. It was almost as if the mere mention was enough to boost a stock, regardless of whether or not the audience really knew what it meant.
It’s no longer just conversation, no longer just a notion. Cloud computing is an emerging approach to shared infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together in private or public networks to provide IT services. The need for such environments is fueled by dramatic growth in connected devices, real-time data streams and the adoption of service-oriented architecture.
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September 27, 2010 at 1:05 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer, Secure Information Exchange
By Bill Buie
Several low-cost, no-cost file transfer solutions are available for use in the workplace. The decline in IT budgets and support staff make these inexpensive or home-grown solutions seem attractive and “good enough” to help resolve basic file transfer needs. But good enough doesn’t always cut it in today’s world. Often these low-cost, no-cost solutions don’t meet growing and complex IT infrastructure and security requirements and can end up costing you more by sacrificing reliability and uptime, ease of use, and providing sub-par security measures.
To help you meet your bottom line without compromising on capabilities or security, GlobalSCAPE is offering our Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) Server at no cost through the end of 2010.
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September 16, 2010 at 9:52 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer, User Experience
By Johnny Wright
Whether through convenience or a lack of tools and knowledge, employees at organizations of all sizes continue to send large, and often times sensitive, files and information through unmanaged, unmonitored and insecure means like personal email, instant messaging, and social networks. This behavior is putting many companies’ network security at risk.
In fact, this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report indicated that 48 percent of breaches were caused by insiders, an increase of 26 percent over the previous year. Not surprisingly, among the reasons for these breaches were privilege misuse, which accounted for 48 percent and social tactics which comprised 28 percent in the report.
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August 31, 2010 at 8:15 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer
By Todd Doerr
Whether or not you are on the cloud bandwagon, all of the talk about quickly scaling up (or down) computing resources based on demand is intriguing and attention worthy. This capability to meet fluctuating capacity demands, whether increasing or decreasing, is often referred to as elasticity by cloud providers.
Traditional capacity planning aims to optimize computing capacity by providing margin to accommodate future demands. Take for instance the following real world examples of demand that affect computing loads:
- Seasonal demand increasing for a retailer (an expected short-term ramp up and ramp down)
- New business or revenue opportunity with a trading partner creates new demand (a quick ramp up)
- Periods of business growth from promotions and campaigns, increases in sales volume, new product launches (periodic ramp up and ramp down)
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August 24, 2010 at 4:17 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer, Secure Information Exchange
By Johnny Wright
Have you ever mailed a package to someone and the person tells you they never received it? Have you ever received a package that arrived torn or damaged in some way? Both of these scenarios have happened to me, and it seems to happen more often now than ever before. However, I would argue that sending email attachments isn’t any more reliable than snail mail, especially when you’re trying to send sensitive information or business-critical documents.
Just today I was waiting for a time-sensitive email from an external party after he said he would send it to me right away. A few hours passed and I still had not received it. Typically, when an email fails to arrive quickly, there could be any number of reasons for the delay:
- Emails with attachments (especially large attachments) could be blocked due to server or security issues.
- Emails from outside parties could be mistakenly considered spam and sent into the infamous ‘Junk’ or ‘Spam’ folders.
- Emails are sometimes simply overlooked by the email recipient due to the large amount of emails received on a daily basis.
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June 23, 2010 at 10:00 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer, Secure Information Exchange
By Jim Morris
Outsourcing certain IT infrastructure and services to the cloud continues to increase in popularity as companies manage to tighter financial margins, face increasing budgetary pressures, and look for efficiencies across their business operations. Rapid deployment and scalability, along with a more predictable cost structure, are key benefits driving adoption of cloud-based solutions.
Managed file transfer (MFT) is a key business enabler that allows companies to automate and audit the exchange of business information. MFT solutions also support secure exchange of large files that cannot be shared using standard e-mail systems. The emergence of MFT solutions predates the current growth of cloud-based services. Therefore, integration of enterprise MFT capabilities and cloud-based hosted services, also known as hosted MFT, is a relatively recent development that provides an attractive alternative for businesses seeking higher operating margins.
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March 24, 2010 at 2:13 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer
By Todd Doerr
Even though managed file transfer (MFT) technology has been around for years, many in the industry are continually surprised at the number of organizations, both public and private, still using legacy FTP solutions for large or sensitive data transfers. Such technology has many shortfalls, including from the end user and IT perspectives. More importantly, it fails to help businesses meet today’s growing cyber security and compliance requirements.
In a recent article on ITBusinessEdge.com, Sam Morris of Attachmate did a good job of laying out the case for investing in MFT solutions. The primary reasons that he cited for adopting an advanced file transfer solution include support for increasing B2B interactions with employees, partners and customers worldwide; reliable, accurate, complete and timely transfer of information; support for internal and external security and compliance mandates; and ease of use. While these are all important and valid, there is one compelling characteristic of today’s leading MFT technology not mentioned in the article: risk reduction through automation.
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March 5, 2010 at 9:00 am · Filed under Managed File Transfer, Risk Management, Secure Information Exchange
By Todd Doerr
As the excitement around RSA 2010 has calmed down a bit, I thought I’d take a minute to share a few pictures and highlights from the Exhibitor Hall to capture GlobalSCAPE’s team in action over the past week.
We were extremely impressed by the products and insight shared during the event. In his discussion with BankInfoSecurity.com’s Nick Burke, Jim Morris, perhaps, captured best the ongoing discussion at RSA about the delicate balance that government, as the policy makers, and vendors, as the solution providers, must strike if we’re truly going to improve our national security posture.
We were also happy to see GlobalSCAPE’s U.S. Army deployment get some play in Government Computer News’ coverage of the RSA event. Our secure information exchange solutions have been baked into the Army logistics technology for many years now. It’s just one example of how we’re working with Government to help reinforce policy with solutions.
Now for the fun stuff… our staff in the booth!
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GlobalSCAPE’ salesman Chris Thacker and Nick Flores pause for a photo opp
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CEO Jim Morris and COO Craig Robinson chatting with an attendee
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Chris Thacker, Lisa Kelaita and Todd Doerr smiling in the GlobalSCAPE booth
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