Trygga

Tygga, a Swedish word for secure. This software was designed in response to a customer need for moving files quickly off of a computer to a central server. Server’s normally being more secure with built in redundancy.

Why not use mapped drives or built windows abilities? This is not always possible; this tool is for the road warriors who never “plug in” at the central office, working from home using high speed lines like DSL, remotely connecting to the central office maybe 2 to 3 times a week, possibly less. The remote person could also work via wireless connectivity out in the field. There are many business functions that depend upon data that resides on a remote employee’s computer:

·        Business spread sheets filled with customer data

·        Individually developed presentations current customers and pending customers

·        Insurance companies who depend on photo images for claims

Those are only a few examples.

What is the business critical data on your remote employees workforce?

How do you ensure it is secure?

The normal process is normally based on employees who are in the office every day. The user of mapped drives, file servers, and expensive backup solutions for the desktop.
The remote work force is another challenge, remote backup clients are not the best solution, it comes down to educating the end user and making them backup files manually. There is no guarantee that will work.

In comes trygga, a light weight application that once set will automatically upload files to the central office.

Trygga will monitor a user specified folder for files ending with a user defined extension, word=.doc, power point=.ppt, and many others, when the folder is suddenly has a new file or an existing file has been edited Trygga will know and depending on the schedule set that file will be encrypted and then uploaded to the central server and then decrypted. Once on the central server that file can be backed up via company standard backup procedures.

Trygga is made up of three parts:

1. Service that runs on end user computer that monitors for file system changes and interacts with component number 2.

2. An agent component that also runs on the end user computer that is the GUI control center for the user, setting different parameters of the application, and controls the upload of files.

3. The central server component is an IIS 6.0 based web component that listens for the Agent component.

All components are developed with the Microsoft .net platform.