Here’s a very insightful article posted on the ITC Review blog written by Gary Shottes, President of the Ipswitch File Transfer Division.
Here are a few quotes from the article that really make you contemplate rules and regulations that force companies to take responsibilities for a data breach…. Not to mention the positive outlook that technology is available to be deployed by organizations to protect sensitive company information:
“Many companies experience data breaches yet fail to tell their clients, let alone the authorities or police. The reason for this is due to the fact that the majority of companies realise they would expect to lose customers immediately, on a massive scale, if a data breach was revealed.
Security experts agree that employees not only need to change the way that they handle data but they also need to invest in software capable of controlling the movement.
File transfer provides the ability to encrypt files making it even harder for data breaches…. Hospitals, retail outlets and insurance companies are discovering the benefits of using these products to securely transfer data, especially with the size of the data being transferred and the ease of which transfers can be automated.“