Axway File Transfer Direct – Ad Hoc MFT Made Simple and Secure

Axway File Transfer Direct combines ease of use and convenience for the end user with business-class large file transfer capabilities and policy-based governance. Relying on the email clients or Web browsers people already use, File Transfer Direct:

• Provides an easy-to-use interface for sending large files, together with the security, policy controls and visibility you need to protect your data – all in a solution that scales with business needs beginning at department level and ending up with the entire company
• Minimises risk and liability by proactively monitoring email attachments, automatically enforcing communications and security policies, and concretely demonstrating compliance with industry and government regulations
• Extend communications to trusted partners efficiently and securely with recipient identification, authentication and authorisation, whilst still enforcing corporate policy and maintaining a complete audit trail with delivery confirmation
• Eliminates the temptation to resort to unmanaged, unsecured FTP servers, illegal email accounts and physical media alternatives such as burning CDs and USB flash drives, by supporting large file attachments (up to 50GB) from within an email client
• Cuts overall IT costs by lightening the management burden on IT staff and reducing email server, network and storage requirements.

It’s like business-class MFT.

Security, policy-based governance and data loss prevention cut costs and reduce risks

With File Transfer Direct, you can bring conventional MFT principles to ad hoc file exchange, by applying predefined or bespoke policy controls to large email attachments. File Transfer Direct fits right into existing IT architectures, improving the efficiency of email infrastructures whilst ensuring that files are delivered and tracked with security, integrity and reliability.

Using predefined dictionaries of keywords or tailored policies, File Transfer Direct scans all outbound attachments to prevent costly, dangerous and embarrassing data breaches. File Transfer Direct can identify:

• Confidential data that is subject to privacy and audit regulations, such as personal health information and credit card, Social Security or account numbers
  • Proprietary material, including business plans, product specifications, contracts and sales figures
• More than 300 attachment types likely to include business assets or confidential information, such as spreadsheets, presentations, text documents, database files and binary and nested files
• Industry buzzwords and terminology, like “guarantee” in financial services or the name of a medical condition in health care.

When a breach in policy is detected, any combination of countermeasures — including blocking, reporting or notifying managers — can be applied to protect the information, the business relationship and the company.

Additionally, administrators may establish policies requiring recipient identification, authentication and authorisation before viewing the attachment, thus ensuring content confidentiality. If the message is forwarded, those security requirements are still applicable to the attachment. Administrators may limit authorisation to the original recipient only, which prohibits others from downloading the attachment.

It’s like Email.

Easy-to-use, seamless ad hoc managed file transfer fits the way people work

With File Transfer Direct, users can send large file attachments directly from a familiar interface, with virtually no change to the way they normally work. File Transfer Direct reduces mailbox storage requirements and works around the size quotas imposed by administrators, by off loading attachments to the File Transfer Direct server. The result is that you can securely send large ad hoc files, there are no more lost or rejected email messages due to email attachments being too large, and no requirements for new desktop software or end-user training. What’s more, Axway File Transfer Direct secures the data, confirms delivery, enforces compliance requirements and provides a complete audit trail.