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It was a beautiful, warm day last Saturday, September 10th when 40 Ipswitch employees headed to the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston’s Seaport District to spend the day with almost 200 area children and families.
As a part of the 9/11 national day of service, we donned our Ipswitch iCare t-shirts to take part in a luncheon and day of fun organized by the Foundation To Be Named Later (FTBNL), a Red Sox affiliate, to support Room To Grow, a charity which helps infants in poverty. Other beneficiaries and invitees to the luncheon included the West End House Boys and Girls Club and Horizons for Homeless Children. Parents raising babies in poverty face many challenges including isolation and lack of resources, say organizers of the event. A special social gathering over lunch can provide meaningful social connections and much-needed respite.
The day began with setting up the arts and crafts tables, decorating the dining tables with fun baseball-inspired centerpieces, and assisting the six Boston-area restaurants who generously catered the event.
When the children and their families arrived, the fun really began! Ipswitchers mingled with the wonderful families, Theo and Paul Epstein (brothers and co-founders of FTBNL), and supporters of the charities. Balloon animals and temporary tattoos were the biggest hits, while the children also enjoyed face painting, coloring, bubbles, and decorating picture frames.
When lunch was served, it became clear that it would be a special treat for volunteers and invitees alike. Six Boston-area restaurants created some seriously delicious gourmet treats, including chicken tacos, macaroni & cheese, mini pastrami sandwiches, and sophisticated “PB&J” sandwiches with fig and blue cheese!
This was truly a special event in which Ipswitch was fortunate to participate. We each enjoyed meeting the inspirational families and children from Room to Grow, Horizons for Homeless Children, and the West End House Boys and Girls Club. A big thank you goes out to the Foundation to Be Named Later for organizing this luncheon!
To see more of the pictures from the event, check out our Facebook Album!
The Boston Business Journal recently honored the 75 best places to work in Boston.
Ipswitch was ranked #2 in the medium sized company category. Woot woot!
We’re a company of approximately 300 extremely talented, motivated and productive employees who really care about our solutions, our customers and our success in the marketplace.
Take a look at the blog of Ipswitch CEO Roger Greene to see some photos from the BBJ awards ceremony as well as Ipswitch’s recent 20-year company celebration in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Oh, and for those wondering, the rankings are the result of an employee survey, with submissions from over 300 Boston-area companies whose employees filled out an anonymous survey (one survey of which was submitted by yours truly).
Check out the latest issue of Ipswitch Insight, our customer newsletter.
We’ve received feedback that you want to watch more of our videos. You asked, and we delivered…. So take some time to sit back, put on your thinking cap, and enjoy the videos that we’ve included in this issue of Ipswitch Insight.
Newsletter webcast recordings:
- 4-part series on MFT as a platform for enterprise application integration (EAI)
- Ipswitch survey reveals security and compliance concerns for businesses
- The benefits of consolidating your file transfer solutions
Plus, you’ll learn why Monsoon, one of the world’s leading retail outlets for fashion and accessories, has selected our MOVEit suite to add security and auditability for file transfer between its international operations.
If you’d like to be added to our mailing list, shoot us an email at MyStories@ipswitch.com and we’ll add you to the list next time around. And of course, we’d love to hear all about how you are using Ipswitch File Transfer solutions too!
We’ve got some fresh stats and trends to share from data that we collected at the recent RSA Security Conference. Many thanks to the “statistically significant” number of people that took the time to fill out our survey questionnaire.
Our survey results highlight some major security and compliance concerns for businesses – information security, visibility and policy enforcement remain a major problem in 2011. Here are a few key data points:
65% have no visibility into files and data leaving their organization- >80% use easily lost or stolen portable devices like USB drives and smartphones to move and backup confidential work files
- >75% send classified documents as email attachments – including payroll, customer data and financial information
- >25% percent have purposely used a personal email account (like yahoo or hotmail or gmail) instead of their work accounts as a way to hide their file transfer activity
- 55 percent said their companies provide – but do not enforce – policies and tools around sharing sensitive information
The fact that so many companies admittedly lack visibility into the files and documents that are moving around and leaving their organization is pretty scary. How can an organization protect information that they don’t know even exists? Clearly, increased focus is needed to first identifying sensitive data and then protecting it – These critical information security components should be carefully baked into an organizations security, governance and compliance initiatives.
Lastly, I’d like to vent on the last data point for a minute. Policy creation simply isn’t enough…. the enforcement of that policy is the critical step. Writing down a policy but not enforcing it is just as risky as not having documented the policy in the first place. Creating the policy is a good start, but please please please don’t stop there.
We’re excited to announce the launch of our Managed File Transfer Maturity Model.
The maturity model is a free resource that helps IT and security professionals quickly, easily, and accurately cut through the clutter to determine their organization’s MFT technology needs.
There are a growing number of file transfer solutions available today…but which one should you select? Well, the MFT Maturity Model will help you understand your buying criteria and determine the right technology solution to match your project’s maturity level and meet your business requirements.
So what are you waiting for? Go check out the MFT Maturity Model whitepapers and videos…and feel free to submit a question also!
