In an era where everything IT-leaning is getting leaner, meaner, faster, and more secure, we need to make sure not to leave file transfers behind. As the security and IT landscapes modernize, organizations are increasingly looking for a way to modernize one of the most foundational elements of business – file transfer – to accommodate rising business needs. Fortra’s recent eBook, “MFT’s Role in Business: IT Leaders Weigh in”, covers this perspective from the eyes of nine industry experts with firsthand experience of an MFT solution, namely Fortra’s GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT). From solution architects to programmers, these IT…
Katrina Thompson
Katrina Thompson
An ardent believer in personal data privacy and the technology behind it, Katrina Thompson is a freelance writer leaning into encryption, data privacy legislation, and the intersection of information technology and human rights. She has written for Bora, Venafi, Tripwire, and many other sites.
The Financial Services industry (FinServ) has left its mark on the API landscape and continues to provide new reasons for innovation. From the first UK bank that pioneered Open Banking to the booming mobile payment industry, FinServ has prompted – and supported – the growth of APIs and their ongoing evolution as everyday artifacts. While that serves both the FinServ sector and the API industry, it presents some security challenges. Now that APIs are everywhere the money is, securing financial transactions is no longer the sole purview of the financial institution – it belongs to anyone, anywhere, developing any app…
While data breaches might be a heist best left to the experts, credential stuffing is a poor-man’s sport. And it’s a pretty popular game. In a 2020 report, RSA recognized it as “gaining tremendous momentum” and cited the then-recent breaches (Marriott, Capital One, Equifax) as providing the fodder used in those attacks – your usernames and passwords. Credential Stuffing Attacks (CSAs) complete the cycle, really. What good is a data breach if you don’t utilize the data? Credential stuffing uses (and overuses) the contraband credentials to try to access other accounts of yours – assuming you use the same password.…