Secure FTP - Secure File Transfer
"This is how secure FTP should be done at the enterprise level. GoAnywhere Services and Director provided a fully integrated file management solution. No more dealing with file permission issues, polling to check if new files arrived or not, not to mention the key management for SFTP logins."
- Shree Mandadi, Integration Lead at CareFusion
Secure FTP & Secure File Transfer Overview
Today's business environment requires extensive transfers of data between companies and their trading partners, customers, and within their internal networks.
Secure FTP protects the confidentiality of sensitive file transfers using strong encryption technology and modern authentication methods, including
- SFTP - FTP over SSH
- FTPS - FTP over SSL/TLS
- SCP - Secure Copy
Secure FTP creates an encrypted tunnel between the client and server systems, which will protect all information that flows over the connection including user ids, passwords, keys and file contents. It also maintains the integrity of the files through hash functions, ensuring that the data packets sent matches the data packets received.
Linoma Software offers two popular solutions to meet your organization's secure FTP requirements.
- GoAnywhere Director™ should be used when you need to initiate secure connections with your trading partners to send and get files.
- GoAnywhere Services™ facilitates the process when your trading partners need to initiate the secure FTP connections with your system to drop-off and retrieve files.
Both products can run on a variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, IBM i (iSeries), UNIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Mac OS X. Read below for more information on both products.
GoAnywhere Director™ is a managed file transfer solution that streamlines file transfers with secure FTP servers, including full support for the SFTP, SCP and FTPS standards.
With SFTP, both passwords and keys are supported for dual factor authentication. In FTPS, you can authenticate connections using a combination of user ids, passwords, client certificates and server certificates. Key and certificate management tools are built into intuitive screens and wizards.
GoAnywhere Director will help guarantee delivery of secure FTP transfers by performing auto-retry of connections, using auto-resume for interrupted file transfers and performing integrity checks of data packets.
Secure FTP transfers can be fully automated through GoAnywhere Director's integrated scheduler or by performing command calls from your applications.
Extensive audit logs are centrally maintained for all file transfer activity. These audit logs can be viewed through a graphical browser-based administrator, exported for sharing with other applications, or directed to a central SYSLOG server.
GoAnywhere Services™ provides secure FTP servers for SFTP, SCP and FTPS protocols. It allows your trading partners (e.g. vendors, customers, remote employees) to connect to your system for exchanging files in a secure and managed environment.
Secure FTP server administration is robust, and includes the ability to quickly set up trading partner user accounts and assign them to directories with specific permissions (e.g. upload, download, delete, etc.)
All session activity is tracked through extensive audit logs that can be queried through the graphical web-based administrator interface. Logs can optionally be exported into CSV format or directed to a central SYSLOG server.
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