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LOCKBOX SFT 1.5.5 is Released

Production servers were upgraded earlier this morning to the latest and greatest.  This upgrade included: Improvements to the user interface to make it easier to navigate; Security improvements to add additional layers of protection for your data; and Update to the legal terms at https://secure.golockbox.com/legal/terms.aspx. Thanks and let us know if you experience any problems [...]

This tax season, protect your confidential data with a free LOCKBOX SFT account

This tax season, keep your data protected when you have to send your tax information to your accountant with a free LOCKBOX Secure File Transfer (SFT) account.  Our feeling is that your tax professional should already have the means of securely exchanging files with you, but in case they don’t you can take the initiative [...]

Top 3 Things Obama Wishes He Had Known in 2010 About Data Protection – What You Can Do To Not Be the Next WikiLeaks Featured Story

This past November, an organization by the name of WikiLeaks released confidential data which documented correspondences the United States had with organizations worldwide. WikiLeaks allegedly got a hold of the data from United States Army soldier Private First Class Bradley Manning who made unauthorized copies of more than 250,000 United States confidential documents while stationed [...]

Microsoft cloud computing team interview with Kevin Lam

Microsoft published the interview they conducted with myself regarding our LOCKBOX Secure File Transfer solution and how we leveraged their Azure Cloud Computing platform.  It’s a short interesting read, so check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/12/09/real-world-windows-azure-interview-with-kevin-lam-president-impacta.aspx. –Kevin LOCKBOX SFT, the easiest to use and most secure file transfer service: http://www.golockbox.com

There’s no such thing as bad press, except … DataLossDB

Came across an interesting site today called the DataLossDB at http://datalossdb.org.  It’s a Web site run by the Open Security Foundation that tracks news and data loss events globally.  If your organization has suffered or may suffer some data loss incident, it’ll probably appear on this site.  Which begs the question, what is your organization doing [...]

Electronic theft for the first time surpasses physical theft

This past October, Kroll Inc. reported in their Annual Global Fraud Report that electronic theft for the first time surpassed physical theft.  Amongst the hardest hit were firms providing financial services, but the applicability applies across all industries and all organizations should start looking at risk mitigation measures. Any one solution alone will not solve all your [...]

Microsoft releases case study of LOCKBOX SFT

Microsoft last week released a great case study of our LOCKBOX Secure File Transfer (SFT) and data protection solution (www.golockbox.com), and how we leverage Microsoft Azure to bring a fast, reliable and secure solution to our customers.  Microsoft did a fantastic job describing the business problems we are solving, how we solved those problems and [...]

FBI warns cyber criminals to target small and medium businesses

On October 20th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted to the e-scams section that cyber criminals are increasing their attacks against small and medium businesses. This is significant as often you’ll find that small and medium businesses do not have the resources to sufficiently protect their systems and data from malicious hacker attacks.  The [...]

LOCKBOX SFT Version 1.5.3 is live!

Tonight, we upgraded the production servers with v1.5.3  of the LOCKBOX bits.  This one was significant, because it added automated data classification for various standards and regulations capabilities to LOCKBOX.  Now our users can protect data according to standards and regulations with just a couple clicks!  Have HIPAA data you need to protect?  No problem. [...]

LOCKBOX SFT Version 1.5 releasing tomorrow night

A planned upgrade is happening tomorrow night at 10:00 pm PST on the production servers.   This upgrade addresses several issues reported to us by our great users, including improved performance and some new administration security features.  Once again, a big thank you to our users who continually work with us to improve LOCKBOX SFT! [...]

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