Do I need a SSL (encrypted) FTP site?
All FTP Worldwide FTP sites are secure. All users are required to have a login name and password to gain access to any of our FTP sites and all our servers are behind firewalls with the latest intrusion and brute force protections. A Secure FTP site, however, goes one step further and protects the files while they are being transferred across the internet. While the files
are being transferred, they are encrypted so that even if a hacker somehow downloads them they are not readable. Who typically uses or requires a Secure FTP site?
- Businesses transferring credit card information.
- Financial institutions.
- Anyone transferring personal records or any type of personal information.
- Businesses transferring or transcribing Medical records. See HIPAA compliant information.
- Public or private institution handling classified information.
- Anyone with sensitive copyright or patented information.
- Companies who need to protect their designs or other types
of sensitive or timely information.
Most businesses do not require a Secure FTP site unless it is required by law or corporate policy.
Is FTP Worldwide HIPAA compliant?
FTP Worldwide is HIPAA ready to meet your HIPAA compliancy requirements for transferring sensitive medical files. We serve many medical offices and transcription agencies within the medical industry that must be HIPAA compliant. We meet HIPAA's guidelines as it pertains to our service.
For detailed HIPAA information you can visit the HIPAA compliance website.
- All our servers are located in data centers that are secured and maintained by 24/7 support staff.
- All our FTP servers are protected by the latest state of the art
firewalls, intrusion and brute force protection.
- All of our FTP Servers run on Linux operating systems for maximum stability and intrusion protection.
- All our FTP shared servers with FTP sites do not accept anonymous FTP.
- FTP User names and passwords are required for all access to our FTP servers.
- 128-bit transfer encryption for all Secure FTP sites. All files transferred to and from a secure ftp site are encrypted.
- FTP over HTTPS (SSL) - requires the use of FTP
Worldwide Web-based JAVA applet.
- FTPS Wrapper available for external ftp clients.
- SFTP over SSH2, available through Port 22.
- Many medical transcription companies use FTP Worldwide to transfer voice and text files on a daily basis
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