Managed File Transfer
The Challenge
Rapid growth in the size and volume of information being moved between organizations is stretching the limits of data storage and transmission networks. Driven by expanded supply chains, and outsourcing of key processes and globalization of markets, IT departments are struggling. They are trying to meet the service level agreements and new customer/ partner on boarding schedules that their businesses need to compete. The challenge is compounded when compliance and security requirements are added to these transmissions. Business-as-usual will not work anymore.
Most organizations have multiple technologies and departments to help manage the movement of critical corporate data. For batch transfers there are data transmission departments. For EDI there are B2B integration platforms, and then there is the whole category of unmanaged transfers.
These include departmental FTP servers, large e-mail attachments and project-based, hand scripted exceptions. These have created a growing risk that companies can no longer afford. This structure leaves organizations facing issues including:
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Lack of protection and controls around sensitive corporate data
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Failure to meet service level agreements and processing windows that wait on transmissions to complete
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Expensive IT resources wasting time on manually tracking errors and hand coding integration scripts
- Inability of legacy infrastructure to scale and meet new business objectives
- Increased difficulty in adhering to tighter government regulations
The Solution
Our products and service offering helps to ensure that critical business processes are reliable, managed, auditable, and able to agilely adapt to changes in the business environment. It provides a cost-effective and unified solution for information-exchange and governance in heterogeneous IT environments, to efficiently maintain compliance with regulative mandates and industry standards, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley act and PCI DSS.
Figure 1: Powerful Enterprise solution for heterogenous environments – MFT and Data connectivity
INTELLIGENCE for effective monitoring, auditing and reporting for the enterprise file transfer operations. Governance solutions enable to ensure the compliance, reliability, and security of critical business infrastructure. They provide with the capability to monitor the state of the environment and its data transactions, provide concise and timely reports to auditors, and to enforce policy – which helps to maintain a sustainable level of security, effective business operations, and a lower Total Cost of Ownership for the business environment.
AUTOMATION for fast deployment and cost-effective solutions to manage and secure file transfer. Automation solutions help run the daily business operations reliably and securely. They provide tools for composing, automating, and executing secure file transfer operations, and for securing existing file transfers and other data transactions without expensive re-engineering applications and scripts, or re-training of personnel. They will ensure that your critical business processes are maintainable, secure, and cost-effectively adapt according to your ever changing business environment.
INFRASTRUCTURE for a unified secure file transfer and communications infrastructure provides a cost-effective and manageable backbone for data operations. Infrastructure solutions form the backbone of your critical business data processes. They provide a powerful and versatile framework for managed file transfer, application connectivity, and secure system administration, by offering a unified solution across all of the key platforms in your environment, ranging from UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms to the core of your business data operations – the IBM z/OS mainframe. This ensures a maintainable and cost-effective platform for your business data transactions that easily extends and adapts according to your ever changing business environment.
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Enterprise business operations and processes are commonly executed as large numbers of daily data transactions. These operations need to be reliable, secure, auditable and able to adapt to changes in the business environment, such as new regulatory mandates, business units, or partners.
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Utilizing an easy-to-use and unified file transfer event composition, execution and auditing interface instead of intricate and error-prone scripts reduces training needs, the management burden, and the time spent on maintaining and continuously re-engineering homegrown legacy systems. It enables fast and cost-effective deployment, and minimizes the risk of failures and potential impact on business operations. It provides a unified user interface across all key enterprise operating systems, providing the same user experience on all platforms.
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Each node can perform file transfer event composition, security, execution, and alert generation, enabling fast and flexible deployment in a true mesh environment – instead of enforcing a rigid hub-and-spoke model, which forces business processes to accommodate the solution and not vice versa. Nodes with heavy traffic, or residing on the boundaries of business domains, can easily be promoted into a hub, enabling cost-effective adaptability to changes in the business environment, such as introducing new business units and external partners – or requirements posed by mandates and industry standards such as the PCI DSS. Interoperability with standards-based solutions, such as OpenSSH, ensures that the SSH Tectia solution is able to agilely and cost-effectively accommodate the extended enterprise.
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Guaranteed Delivery ensures that files are transmitted as planned. Alerts notify operators of failures, and easy-to-use analysis tools help to quickly identify problems. Alternative event chains can be triggered upon failure of primary file transfer operations Centralized tools for transfer monitoring, auditing, and reporting provide timely information for identifying anomalies, deviations from policy, and trends in business operations on both SSH Tectia and OpenSSH servers, ensuring visibility into the entire file transfer environment.
