Greg Mooney | | Security
Nobody does IT security better than you and your InfoSec team. You developed a strategic plan that prevents most breaches, and for those that do slip by your perimeter defenses, you have a great tactical plan to identify and mitigate attacks as quickly as possible....
Sherwood Stranieri | | IT Insights
In the 2018-2020 timeframe, the rollout of GDPR in the EU is having an impact on companies worldwide, thanks to its legislative reach beyond the EU’s borders. But companies also have to content with a wave of new data privacy legislation in the US, UK, China, and many...
Mark Towler | | Security
Security policies are prone to change, and you need to keep your users up-to-date on those changes so that they won't violate the terms of the policy, but doing so is often easier said than done.
Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights
Recently at the Microsoft Build conference, it was announced that there is a new Windows terminal that can be used as an alternative to cmd of PowerShell, called Windows Terminal.
Jeff Edwards | | File Transfer | Security
If you're using secure file transfer tools, chances are you're security conscious. Maybe you're working in a highly-regulated industry, or perhaps you don't want your company on the front page of the newspaper for getting hacked. Whatever the case, if you're securing...
Greg Mooney | | Security
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has been the standard bearer for sending or moving files too large for email. Today, those file transfers contain the lifeblood of an organization and so Secure FTP is now critical.
Jeff Edwards | | File Transfer | Security
Businesses archive their data for a lot of reasons, but what is the most critical use case for archiving? For security or for posterity?
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights | Security
Bluetooth security… Some consider it an oxymoron, like ‘global intelligence’ community or ‘offshore support’ while others recognize Bluetooth flaws and understand their causes. Whatever side of the fence your opinions lie, it’s fair to observe that Bluetooth has its...
Jeff Edwards | | File Transfer | IT Insights
Progress and Ipswitch are proud to announce the release and general availability of MOVEit 2019.1, the newest iteration of the industry leading MOVEit secure managed file transfer (MFT) solution used by thousands of IT professionals to provide complete visibility,...
Greg Mooney | | Security
In this Have You Met? podcast, we sat down with Daniel Hotz of QBITS, a Progress partner based in Switzerland, to see how they are implementing MOVEit managed file transfer in the various regions they serve clients.
Greg Mooney | | Security
Efficient collaboration and peer-to-peer file transfer are important for any job, but you don't want to do it in a way that leaves data unprotected.
Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights | Security
In this article, we discuss how to grant users simple admin rights temporarily like installing software. This helps keep IT from getting bogged down.
Greg Mooney | | Security
Ah, cryptography. It’s so important to us in our every day lives and yet it has one of the longest and confusing pasts of any type of technology we use today.
Jeff Edwards | | Security
Username and password may be the de-facto means of authentication for many organizations, but they can easily be the weakest link in security controls. In this article, we’ll detail why Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be paired with encryption for top-level...
Since encryption is used to secure data, it would seem only natural that encrypting something twice would increase security. However, that isn't always the case.
Jeff Edwards | | IT Insights | Security
There are basically two ways to keep data out of the hands of hackers. One is to protect every endpoint leading to it, making it essentially inaccessible. The other is to encrypt the data, so that even if hackers get to the document they cannot read it. But where should...
DevOps, the latest in software engineering and IT operations trends, defines a set of processes, tools, practices, and interactions that foster collaboration between developers and operations to achieve high-quality business outcomes. In this article, we are going to...
Eric Bruno | | Security
Scripting is a popular and powerful choice to automate repeatable file transfer tasks. It can be horrifying, though, to discover just how many scripts are relied on for the successful operation of your infrastructure. This and the time they take to execute are sure to...
A pass the hash attack is a common attack vector utilized by many adversaries. In this attack, a Windows username is paired with the hashed value of a Windows account password. Let's take a deeper look.
If you are a Windows user, you have likely heard of Microsoft AppLocker. This whitelisting program allows Windows users to protect itself from disk based malware by way of restricting executable programs to a specific list of paths, hashes, or signed applications....
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