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Decision Time: Should You Upgrade to the Latest FileMaker Version?

In the realm of database management and application development, staying current with software advancements is more than a luxury. It’s a necessity for maintaining a competitive edge and operational efficiency. Over the years, FileMaker, a cornerstone platform for developers and businesses, has evolved.  Here we will distill the essence of these changes, focusing on the leap from FileMaker 12 to FileMaker 2023, to aid in your decision-making process about upgrading.

FileMaker and Ransomware

With the recent highly publicized attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS, we’ve had questions from some of our clients about protecting FileMaker data from ransomware attacks. While we are always careful to make it clear that we are not security professionals, we also try to do our best to answer our client’s questions, and so we have done some self-education recently as well as group discussions during our weekly developer meetings.

FileMaker Security Audit

One of our large clients brought in a security analysis firm, BlueOrane to perform a security analysis on all of their systems. BlueOrange found a number of security issues in the FileMaker solution, most of which were related to decisions made over the years to facilitate ease of administration and support of the application.

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