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Most US states now have their own data breach notification law. If your business operations involve the storage and transfer of personal information, there are a couple of things you ought to know to reduce the risks and bring down the costs of compliance.

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Will Brexit have a significant impact on data transfers involving personal information? While it's hard speculate what the impact will be, it could largely depend on the specific path UK chooses to take once its separation from the EU is finalized.

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Results from Ponemon's 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study show that the price of these incidents continues to rise and that it has now breached the $4 Million mark. Another paper published by Deloitte even talks about hidden costs that far exceed what most businesses normally take into account. While these reports paint an alarming picture on the state of data security, we managed to extract from these papers key factors that can help businesses mitigate the risks.

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Windows, including Windows 10, lacks a built-in SFTP client, making it challenging for users to securely transfer files to an SFTP server. This post guides Windows users on setting up an alternative solution for secure file transfers.

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An automated SFTP download is one of the most efficient ways of downloading data from a remote server over a secure, encrypted channel. It's ideal for enterprise-class transactions and data exchanges that require outstanding levels of speed, security, and accuracy. In this post, we're going to show you several ways of doing this type of download on JSCAPE MFT Server.

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Last week, while responding to one of the tickets at our HelpDesk, I noticed that the port number used wasn't standard. While we encounter this quite often, the use of non-standard ports is one of those practices where many IT folks have opposing views.

On one side you have those who consider the use of non-standard ports a form of "security through obscurity" and hence discourage it. On the other, you have those who actually recommend it. Clearly, the topic makes for an interesting discussion, so here we are to discuss it.

Atlanta, GA, May 25, 2016 - Stonebranch, a modern workload automation solution provider that simplifies mission-critical IT business processes, and JSCAPE, a software company focused on offering high-quality, platform-independent and easy-to-use managed file transfer products and services, announced today a strategic technology partnership to deliver Universal Data Mover Gateway (UDM Gateway.)

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Although you can run AS2 over HTTPS in order to provide encryption, authentication, data integrity, and non-repudiation to your EDI exchanges, it's not necessary. You can still get the same level of protection if you use AS2's built-in support for encryption and digital signatures. We already talked about AS2 encryption in a previous post, so this time, let's focus on digital signatures.

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Over the last few months, we've been receiving a growing number of inquiries on how to enable support for SHA2 certificates in JSCAPE MFT Server. We later learned that the intention was not just to accommodate SHA2-signed certs but to actually replace SHA1-signed certs with them.In this post, we explain why people are moving from SHA1 to SHA2 and why you need to do so as well.