IT Security News and Blog

Webinar: How to keep your files safe

• Michael Ramalho
• 24 June 2022
• MFT, Data Security, GDPR, Cybersecurity Culture, Ipswitch

Free version of WhatsUp Gold now available

• Michael Ramalho
• 18 February 2022
• Network Monitoring, WhatsUp Gold

Last week Progress announced the launch of a new edition of WhatsUp Gold was hitting the market. But this wasn't just a bulked up version of what had come before, with a broader feature set. This was a free version of WhatsUp Gold. 

Pro2col Acquires Advanced Cyber Solutions

• Michael Ramalho
• 27 January 2022

We're excited to announce that Advanced Cyber Solutions Ltd has been acquired by Pro2col Ltd.  Pro2col are renowned in the MFT solutions and services marketplace for their technical expertise, outstanding customer support and breadth of portfolio; and we believe there couldn't possibly be a better outcome for our customers - who will benefit from a larger team, with better resources and exciting future plans. 

Progress MOVEit 2021 is Finally Here!

• Marie Jorgensen
• 28 April 2021
• Managed File Transfer, File Transfer, MOVEit

It is the 28th April 2021 and after what has been a spectacularly strange twelve months, the summer is soon to be upon us and there is a new release of Progress MOVEit 2021.

An Introduction to Primeur Data One

• Chris Payne
• 18 April 2021
• Managed File Transfer, File Transfer, Data Security, Primeur

Today is a very special day for us as we are pleased to announce and introduce our latest vendor signing with Italian data data transformation, integration and transfer supremoes, Primeur. A vendor whom it is fair to say is not the most well-known of industry names, but counts many of the Fortune 500 as their customers, to make up for it.

Date & Time Logic for Transferring Log Files with MOVEit Automation

• Chris Payne
• 11 April 2021
• Managed File Transfer, File Transfer, Automation, MOVEit, Conditional Logic

If you are a regular reader of our blogs, you would know that we often like to highlight any particular technical achievements or solutions we developed, so that knowledge can be shared amongst our customers and visitors alike. This week we not only have a clever solution - for transferring log files using MOVEit Automation - to showcase but that solution has been submitted by one of our customers.

How to Configure SAML Authentication - Using MOVEit and Azure AD

• Chris Payne
• 10 February 2021
• MOVEit, Microsoft Azure, SAML, Federated Identity

Federated identity based authentication is (and should be) the holy grail of all IT Security authentication policies. Something which all IT teams should be looking to introduce to all cloud and third-party hosted solutions. Controversial opinion? I don't think so, but I am happy to be debated on the topic.

Comparing Progress WhatsUp Gold and SolarWinds

• Chris Payne
• 4 February 2021
• Network Monitoring, WhatsUp Gold, NetFlow, SolarWinds

In this blog post we are comparing two network monitoring goliaths - Progress WhatsUp Gold and SolarWinds NPM, which is the Network Performance Monitoring module of the wider SolarWinds solution. For simplicity, we will continue to refer to this simply as SolarWinds and point-out where other plugins are required.

WhatsUp Gold 2021 - What's New and Noteworthy?

• Chris Payne
• 20 January 2021

The development team at Progress sure has been busy over the past couple of months. With a new release of WS_FTP Server in December 2020, after a hiatus of two years; seemingly not enough of a task. We are now treated to a new version of WhatsUp Gold for 2021.

What's New in WS_FTP Server 2020?

• Chris Payne
• 15 December 2020
• File Transfer, WS_FTP, upgrades

In keeping with the season of gift giving, Progress Software have released a 2020 edition of the well-known WS_FTP Server software. Bringing an end to a wait of just over two years since the previous version - the last version released by predecessor Ipswitch Inc.