Newsletter - January 2009

Osterman Research release new whitepaper on Intelligent File Transfer for Email Attachments

Osterman Resarch, known for its focus on messaging, collaboration, and Web-related products, just released a whitepaper on Why You Need an Intelligent File Transfer Solution. You'll find some interesting statistics on organizations' use of email to deliver files, and the cost and security concerns associated with this practice. Read the whitepaper to find out why Michael Osterman says "Intelligent file transfer has become an obvious next step in the evolution of secure information exchange." Also, discover how you can integrate secure file transfer functionality into your current Outlook clients for seamless integration for your users.

BDS Tech Tip of the Month

Locking down the link between your SFT server and the client is pretty standard: SSL provides excellent encryption of all the data that is being transmitted during any communication between BDS users and the server. However, encryption doesn't stop there. Files that are sitting on the server itself should be encrypted as well, so that even if someone somehow gains access to your file system that holds BDS files, that person will not be able to make heads or tails of the actual data. To enable back end encryption, or more commonly known as encryption for "data at rest", you need to enable encryption using a separate encryption tool. This encryption utility can be found in the "tools" directory, under the directory in which you installed BDS. This tool is cross platform, and runs on both Windows and Linux. Once you start up the tool, you'll be able to enable and disable encryption, issue and change encryption keys, and encyrpt and decrypt the entire system on demand. File encryption is handled automatically by BDS, with no end-user input required. All files that are uploaded into the system are automatically encrypted before being stored. When a file is delivered to a recipient, the file is automatically decrypted, so the end user does not need to supply his or her own public/private key pair.