|
Ipswitch File Transfer Survey 2007
18/05/07
Ipswitch has
announced results of a recent survey of 238 customers revealing that
compliance regulations are a top concern. The survey also revealed
that over sixty percent noted organisational confidentiality as an
important consideration for 2007 file transfer investment decisions.
Additionally, respondents mentioned at least one government
regulation or industry standard, including: Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS,
HIPAA, BASEL II and J-SOX, as a compliance consideration for file
transfer investments.
Survey
respondents included WS_FTP Professional and WS_FTP Server customers
and evaluators from 24 countries and organisations of all sizes.
Seventy percent of the respondents were IT department personnel,
predominately IT managers and network administrators. Other users
included Webmasters, consultants, executive managers, technical and
business staff. Twenty percent of the respondents work for
enterprise-level organisations of 1,000 or more employees.
The survey
aimed to uncover the meaning of "compliance" for individual
organisations and the file transfer capabilities required to meet
the security and compliance standards relevant to their
organisations. The meaning of "compliance" is context specific -- to
company policy, to industry standards, to government statutes, or
some combination thereof. The results showed that compliance is
often considered a 'hassle' for organisations, but that security is
a vital concern. Having confidence in the security, privacy, control
and verification of hosted and transferred data is central to the
meaning of the compliance for WS_FTP users.
Additionally,
Ipswitch uncovered that its upcoming WS_FTP Server offering delivers
the top three logging activities that today's FTP users value most.
These include: logging every administrator interaction, logging
every client/server interaction and using syslog and
write-to-password-protected-location.
"The survey
results support and reinforce what we have already found to be the
case - more and more FTP users are looking for a secure and safe
file transfer solution to meet increasing compliance demands," said
Kevin Gillis, VP of file transfer products for Ipswitch. "Our
current FTP offerings and new product development is in lock step
with current IT department user needs."
Nick Gibson, editor
©
Copyright Screen-Studio.com 2007
|
