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Content Visibility and Its Role in Demonstrating Compliance

February 15, 2018September 11, 2018 | Compliance

Is your organization’s data secure? If so, can you clearly demonstrate your security practices to auditors? Data privacy and data security is very important. In our previous posts, we identified...

Understand and Achieve GDPR Compliance

January 29, 2018September 9, 2018 | GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was developed to bring legal unification and clarity to the protection of EU citizens’ personal data. Many organizations, however, are unaware of how...

Accellion and Check Point Together Deliver Advanced Threat Prevention for File Sharing

January 17, 2018September 9, 2018 | CISO/CIO

Advanced threat prevention for file sharing is a necessity for any SMB or enterprise that hopes to defend against data breaches and cyber attacks. Accellion and Check Point have partnered...

FedRAMP for the Private Sector: Accellion’s FedRAMP Authorized Solution Benefits Commercial Businesses, Too

December 19, 2017September 9, 2018 | FedRAMP

FedRAMP for the private sector enables commercial business to take advantage of cloud solutions that the U.S. Federal Government has certified to provide rigorous security controls, as this post explains....

External File Sharing Governance for Transforming Care

October 31, 2017September 9, 2018 | Healthcare

External file sharing governance is challenge for many healthcare organizations (HCOs), but it’s a challenge they need to address to deliver the best possible care while ensuring compliance with data...

Secure File Sharing in Banking Amid Industry Disruption: New Model, New Challenges

July 18, 2017September 9, 2018 | Financial Services

Significant disruption in the banking industry is forcing traditional banks to rethink how they provide services to consumers. Inevitably, secure file sharing in banking must also be revisited. Since the...

Secure File Sharing for Engineering Helps Auxitec Protect Intellectual Property

June 20, 2017September 9, 2018 | Security

Secure file sharing for engineering firms is a necessity not only for protecting content but also for enhancing project management. This case study about a leading French engineering company demonstrates...

FedRAMP Compliant File Sharing for Federal Agencies

FedRAMP Authorization for Accellion’s Secure File Sharing Platform

June 12, 2017September 9, 2018 | FedRAMP

We are delighted to announce the Accellion secure file sharing and governance platform has received FedRAMP authorization. What is FedRAMP authorization and why does it matter? For the uninitiated, FedRAMP is a...

Ransomware Protection in the Age of WannaCry: How to Limit the Impact of an Infection and Speed Recovery

May 24, 2017September 9, 2018 | Security

If you read IT security news (or, quite frankly, any news at all), you’re familiar with the global WannaCry ransomware attack that was launched recently. It’s a sobering lesson in...

Secure Medical Records Transfer Helps Indiana University Health Deliver Better, Faster Care

April 6, 2017September 9, 2018 | Healthcare

Secure medical records transfer is a requirement for any U.S. healthcare organization (HCO) interested in improving quality of care while supporting compliance with HIPAA, as this case study about Indiana...

Achieve GDPR Compliance to Comply With EU’s New Data Privacy Law

February 17, 2017September 9, 2018 | Compliance

GDPR Compliance is going to be an ongoing challenge for IT organizations around the world. What is the GDPR, and why is GDPR compliance so important? We live in a...

Secure File Sharing for Law Enforcement: How Accellion Supports Abbotsford Police Department’s Investigative Efforts

February 6, 2017September 9, 2018 | CISO/CIO

Secure file sharing for law enforcement helps police departments and other law enforcement organizations do their jobs better and faster, as this case study explains. Abbotsford Police Department (APD) serves...

Drive Digital Transformation with Enterprise Content Integration

January 26, 2017September 9, 2018 | Integration

Competition has intensified and forced businesses to innovate more quickly, generating new ways of serving customers, sometimes even with new business models or new business units or spun-off organizations. To...

CJIS Compliance Through Secure File Sharing for Mobile, Cloud-based IT

January 15, 2017September 11, 2018 | Government

New mobile and cloud technologies present law enforcement with new opportunities to capture and communicate Criminal Justice Information (CJI), potentially speeding investigations, building better cases, and demonstrating CJIS compliance. By...

Secure File Sharing for Insurance Companies: Protecting Consumer Privacy

November 30, 2016September 11, 2018 | Uncategorized

Secure file sharing for insurance companies is an industry requirement. This post explains why. Insurance companies are facing two big challenges, and both have to do with information. The first...

NIST 800-171 Compliant File Sharing – What You Need to Know and How Accellion Can Help

A Case Study in Enterprise Workflow Automation: The Linde Group Streamlines Customer Invoicing with SAP-Accellion Integration

DLP Integration and its Role in Secure File Sharing