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May 24, 2007

Secure File Transfer

Secure File Transfer is gaining traction and importance among many organizations. Especially as businesses see increasing threats to sensitive data.

This PRNewswire article reports on a survey that lists some new percentages based on 2007 respondents of "what keeps IT network and systems administrators up at night and reflects their priorities and selections for best practices".

Secure File Transfer (31%) (up from 13% in 2006)
Keeping virus definitions up to date (45%)
Managing logs(8%)
Monitoring intrusions (40%)
Network use monitoring (22%)
Password management (20%)
Patching systems (42%)
Replacing nonsecure protocols(8%)
Securing remote access (47%)
User awareness (20%)
User training(14%)

Check out the full article for more context on these percentages -- full article here:

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