Cybersecurity Expertise and Secure File Transfer Best Practices
Accepting credit card payments is standard practice in most businesses. In order to protect cardholder data, any business that accepts, processes, transfers or stores credit card data must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Often referred to simply as “PCI,” this standard was developed by a consortium of credit card issuers […]
There is real danger that the current climate of freedom and flexibility enjoyed by many enterprise businesses using cloud computing could be overshadowed by a storm looming on the horizon. The unsanctioned use of consumer-oriented file-sharing services across businesses is a growing concern for IT departments everywhere. Often referred to as the ‘Dropbox problem’ by […]
When you attempt to access data on a server, an authentication process goes on behind the scenes to prove you have permission to access data. This can be as simple as entering a password. Some servers even allow anonymous access, which allows anyone to request data (this is terribly insecure, however, and unacceptable in secure […]
SSL Secures Transactions and File Transfers While FTP paved the way for common-use applications of file transfer, here it is a legacy protocol with many unpluggable security holes. Certain measures can be taken to make FTP more se, such as turning off anonymous access and heightening the security of your firewall, but this doesn’t make […]
Corporate networks today rely on a router and/or firewall to protect their computers or LAN from unauthorized external access. Firewalls provide security by filtering or redirecting inbound traffic. A firewall can be implemented as software or hardware and works by examining packets of information passing into a network through ports. We explored packets a bit […]
Scalability is a hot topic in server technology today. Large companies want to use their hardware to maximum efficiency. They want servers that handle both everyday file exchange and spikes of high traffic. At the most basic level, order a server must have access to the data a user needs and the capacity to deliver […]
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