Safeguarding Internal File Transfers – A2A Security Begins at Home

On average, 80 percent of an organisation’s information is contained in files, many of which are constantly on the move between people, systems and applications.

Even if your accounting, stock, payment, product, customer and sales data aren’t travelling beyond your company’s firewall, you still need a comprehensive solution that allows you to automate, schedule, manage, secure, track and audit the movement of all this data within your organisation. Despite the notoriety of Internet-related security threats, the fact is that the largest point of attack and compromise remains inside a company’s four walls.

Axway Transfer CFT is one component of Axway’s Application-to-Application (A2A) MFT solution, providing your business with a powerful platform for exchanging files between distinct hardware and software platforms using open protocols – with no application rewrites. A non-intrusive, high-volume, file transfer service that provides a uniform interface for users and applications throughout the company, Axway Transfer CFT provides:

Business flexibility:

• Axway Transfer CFT offers service orientation to allow platforms and applications to remain independent of one another, providing a simple way to use SOA for files and to ensure maximum business flexibility for future growth.
• Axway Transfer CFT allows you to design your file transfer service the way you want it, whether it’s peer-to-peer or hub-and-spoke using store-and-forward services. Axway Transfer CFT supports event-driven, scheduled, store-and-forward and push-or-pull file transfer for business processes over a wide range of open, standards-based Internet protocols. Axway Transfer CFT creates an event-driven business, or helps you become event-driven if you haven’t yet reached that stage.
• You can integrate Axway Transfer CFT with other Axway and third-party products to create a tailor-made solution for your specific environment and business requirements.

Visibility and audit trails:

• Manage your data communications globally with end-to-end visibility. Optional business dashboards allow you to view and react to monitored data exchanges using event-based processing across all major networks, mainframes, servers, desktops and software applications.
• Improve quality of service and reduce costs over your entire data exchange environment by detecting and correcting malfunctions in real time, before they become critical.
• Ensure compliance with regulations that require audit of processes, security and access, including SOX, HIPAA, PCI, MHLW, EMEA and GLBA. 

Dependability:

• Maintain consistent data for all mission-critical applications and processes, by synchronising them to deliver the right information to the right places at the right time – with complete security.
• Automate and audit processes with guaranteed delivery, checkpoint/restart and encryption, and a rich acknowledgement and audit chain.

High performance:

• Boost productivity by automating and scheduling complicated, event-driven batch processes.
• Optimise and use your existing IT resources for company-wide MFT.

Learn more about Axway Transfer CFT

Learn more about Axway MFT solutions:

• MFT Gateways. Securely exchange files outside of your organisation with one of Axway’s B2B gateways.
• Endpoints & Community Solutions. Manage large communities and make it easy for everyone in your business ecosystem to communicate with you.
• Ad hoc MFT. Establish the same levels of security, visibility and traceability for unscheduled file transfers via email as you do for automated B2B and A2A file transfers.