BEC Cash-out Methods: Email Fraudsters Experimenting With Alternative Approaches
This article was originally published by Agari in December 2020. Business email compromise (BEC) actors are exploring alternative cash-out methods for spiriting away the profits from their crimes. Traditional bank accounts have long been the go-to choice for email scammers seeking to cash out the funds they’ve pilfered from organizations they victimize. Just since 2016, […]
The outlook is cloudy: The importance of Data Classification and Data Access Governance tools
By the end of the year 2020 it is predicted that 60% of organisations will use an external service provider’s cloud managed service offering. That is double the amount doing so two years ago. With cloud adoption not slowing down and even accelerating as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, organisations can be forgiven for […]
Managed File Transfer Predictions 2021
Like most people I’ll be happy to see the back of 2020, it’s been a tough year for all and sundry. Without beating the COVID-19 drum too much, it is easy to see how its shaped our lives in more ways than one. One such way is undoubtedly the major shift to different working patterns […]
Don’t Forget About Managed File Transfer
Managed File Transfer (MFT) is not sexy. It just isn’t, but quite often the wider picture of things it facilitates is. MFT underpins business processes and interactions which are often much grander than moving a file via the humble SFTP protocol. When talking to our customers, I am always amazed when I find out what […]
HANDD Business Solutions Announce Partnership With Ava
HANDD Business Solutions is proud to announce a new partnership with Ava, a unified security company. This company recently announced the completion of the merger between a cyber security insider threat company and end-to-end intelligent video security provider. Ava is now uniquely positioned to deliver unified cyber and physical security solutions to organisations worldwide. “In […]
MFT, SWIFT, and the Fight Against Cyberfraud
As businesses across the world continue to expand globally, the volume of global payment transfers is growing along with them. The world’s largest electronic payment message system, SWIFT, saw a 5.4% YoY increase in message transfers as of May 2019. SWIFT, or The Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is a network that enables over 11,000 […]
Global IT Security consultancy HANDD is Globalscape’s Top United Kingdom Partner in 2018
HANDD, an independent IT security firm based in the United Kingdom, today confirmed that GlobalSCAPE, Inc., a worldwide leader in the secure movement and integration of data, recognised it as the leading United Kingdom-based Master Partner for 2018. HANDD delivered the most revenue and closed the largest deployment of any United Kingdom-based Globalscape partner. HANDD […]
How to Unlock More Benefits From Your Managed File Transfer Solution
Managed File Transfer platforms and business to business gateways have been working to help companies securely transfer information between applications, systems and people for decades. Originally deployed to consolidate file transfers to one central server, the use of MFT has evolved over time. Now, it can typically be found facilitating the transfer of files to […]
Deloitte Data Breach: What Were They Thinking?
Let me make this clear right from the off, this isn’t another blog merely hammering an organisation that has had the misfortune to suffer a breach, that would be as churlish as it is stupid. The reality is a breach could probably occur to almost anyone and taking delight in the failure of a company […]
Data Storage: In the Cloud, Or Not?
You want the benefits of cloud computing, but as a sensible IT professional, you also have one eye on security. How can you decide whether to store your data in a cloud environment or locally, and make those decisions systematically? Earlier this year, HANDDÂ Business Solutions asked 304 IT professionals in the UK what data security […]