Security Insights and Updates

Best Practices

Best Practices

Most work tells you how you did. Security does not, which changes what experience is worth and what an absence of incidents actually proves.

Best Practices

Best Practices

Every piece of security advice is an instruction to spend something. Rarely does anyone say what, how much, or what to do when you cannot.

Security

Security

Harvest now, decrypt later only works if the data still matters in ten years. File transfer is where it does.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Most SFTP automation lives outside the server, in scripts with their own credentials and their own failure modes. Here is what changes when common operations run natively instead.

Security

Security

Insider risk costs organizations $17.4 million annually on average, and most incidents take 81 days to detect. The threat does not need to break in. It already has a key, and closing the gap takes more than better access controls.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Load balancers remain the standard way to achieve active-active SFTP redundancy. Here is what they cost, the subtler failure modes most HA implementations miss, and a capability worth knowing about when no load balancer is in place.

Security

Security

MOVEit, GoAnywhere, Titan, JSCAPE, GlobalScape, Cerberus, and SFTPGo have all accumulated CVEs over the years. Here is what the public record shows, and what actually drives whether vulnerabilities pile up.

Best Practices

Best Practices

The licensing model you choose for file transfer infrastructure shapes your costs, your compliance posture, and your vendor dependency for years. Here is how to evaluate it honestly.

Security

Security

35.5% of all breaches in 2024 originated from third-party access. The attacker does not need to break in when a trusted vendor has already connected. Here is what that means for your SFTP and file transfer infrastructure.

Security

Security

Most SaaS file transfer platforms store your files on their servers. That single architectural choice has legal, regulatory, and operational consequences that no vendor contract can fully resolve.

Security

Security

Data exfiltration happens through channels that are already open, using credentials that are already valid. Here is how granular controls at the file transfer layer stop it before it becomes a breach.

Security

Security

88% of breaches involve human error. But the real question is why we've built systems where getting security right requires expertise most people don't have. And who is actually responsible for fixing that.

Compliance

Compliance

GDPR fines have exceeded €7.1 billion. Healthcare breaches average $9.77 million. The penalties for inadequate file transfer infrastructure are well documented. Here is what compliant looks like.

Security

Security

Most cyberattacks are financially motivated. Cyberterrorism isn't; and treating them the same leaves critical infrastructure dangerously exposed. Here's why the distinction matters and what adequate protection actually looks like.

Security

Security

Economically developed countries face the highest cybercrime risk and produce the most sophisticated attackers. Here is what that means for your organization's security strategy.

Best Practices

Best Practices

Learn how organizations protect sensitive data with access controls, encryption, MFA, real-time threat detection, and audit logging. A practical guide for IT and security teams.