Posts from ‘Sendable’
When hard work backfires
When interviewing job candidates, I’m always on the lookout for dedicated, motivated, passionate people that relish in rolling up their sleeves and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. Why? Because a little bit of chutzpah goes a long way towards being a successful and productive employee.
But can employees “going above and beyond” backfire and result in severe damage to a company?
Unfortunately, yes, they can.
In his guest blog post on LastWatchdog, Gary Shottes, President of Ipswitch File Transfer, describes an example of how hard-working employees are causing new security and legal liability implications that organizations need to carefully consider when deciding what tools to provide people with.
“Highly-motivated workers are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, with or without IT. Employees, whose job requires them to send information to colleagues, partners, vendors or customers around the globe, have literally thousands of file transfer options.
If IT fails to provide employees with a fast and easy way to share information, they will take matters into their own hands, even if that means using technology that’s not sanctioned by IT. They may use a personal webmail account, smartphones, USB drive, or even transfer data via Facebook and LinkedIn.”
Combining that increasingly familiar scenario with some recent survey data indicating that over 80% of IT executives lack visibility into files moving both internally and externally drives home the 
scary point that there’s a big security hole in many companies…. And organizations need to be careful that employees can’t crawl through it, even if it’s with the best of intentions.
Fortunately, there are some great tools out there to arm employees with a quick, easy-to-use and secure way to share information with other people, both inside and outside the company — While at the same time provide the company with the critical visibility, management and enforcement it needs to protect sensitive and confidential information. This is one situation where it makes a lot of sense to lead the horse to water & make it drink.
IIS administrators, you may have already seen this attack listed on your favorite security sites.
Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/mass-sql-injection-attack-hits-sites-running-iis-061010
However, I have good news if you’re an Ipswitch customer running MOVEit DMZ or WS_FTP Server under IIS: the filtering mechanisms in both products designed to prevent many types of SQL injection prevent this one as well. Our hosted customers, whether Sendable users or MOVEit DMZ Hosting Services users, also benefit from the same filtering technology and are likewise safe.
You have a huge file. I’m talking 15GB big. And, it needs to be in the hands of its intended recipient as soon as possible.
You can’t send it through email (thanks, file attachment burden!) and you wouldn’t want to anyways, since it contains all sorts of sensitive information. You can’t put it on a thumb drive or burn it to a disc because those are easily misplaced and could end up in the wrong hands. And you certainly can’t send it through a courier service because that’s way too expensive and really, who has the time for that?
Sendable
So, how’s it gonna get there?
In the time that you wasted trying to figure out how to send that pesky little (ENORMOUS) file…the whole process could have been completed. No joke. You could have sent the file to your recipient’s email account, received a delivery notification, received a download notification, and possibly a phone call from your recipient saying “THANK YOU!!!”
How, do you ask? Why, with Sendable, of course!
