Preventing Data Breaches: Effective Strategies for Secure File Transfer Tool Implementation

Rajendraprasad Chittimalla

Authors

Rajendraprasad Chittimalla MS Information Systems Security, Software Engineer - Team Lead, Equifax Inc, USA. Author

Keywords:

data breaches, security challenges, privacy, authentication, secure file transfer, transfer protocols

Abstract

Data breaches are the primary concern for organizations and significant resources need to be allocated to protect data files doing file transfer. This writing is all about identifying the challenges and the adoption of effective measures. It’s about how useful tools can help to restrict access to unwanted actions. These measures are instance, encryption, RBAC, MFA, validations, audit trails, and employee training to help to mitigate the issues using effective implementations. Although organizations nowadays are exposed to multiple high-end technologies but are mainly restricted due to limited resources such as cost and limited human resources. The given research also presents the best practices that can be followed for effective implementation to protect data during file transfers.

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