Archive for June, 2010
Why is MFT important?
Industry expert Michael Osterman shares some great editorial and perspective in Messaging News on the Ipswitch acquisition of MessageWay. He starts by pointing out that Ipswitch is positioned as a “Leader” in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer….. As well as Ipswitch’s proven track record in the file transfer space (Nearly 20-years for those counting).
He also nailed what the acquisition immediately brings to the table as far as expanding Ipswitch’s range of solution offerings: “(Ipswitch has) clearly boosted its position in the MFT space with this acquisition given that MessageWay’s MFT solutions are designed for high volume file transfer applications in the large enterprise (Global 2000) and service provider markets.”
I particularly like (and agree with) his answer to the question of “Why is MFT important?”
“Among the many reasons are two key ones:
Word of today’s public announcement that Ipswitch has acquired MessageWay Solutions is already starting to spread, and fast. Whether you’re an Ipswitch customer or employee, industry expert, or just learning about the Managed File Transfer space one thing is clear – The MFT industry is evolving and growing worldwide, both in strategic importance and pure volume.
We’ve seen greater emphasis on managing and controlling file processing behind the firewall…. And witnessed customers and prospects describing their need for an MFT solution that includes some B2B and EDI attributes.
Ipswitch’s acquisition of MessageWay creates the industry’s most powerful and complete suite of Managed File Transfer solutions with robust, highly scalable advanced file services that continues where MFT has traditionally left off – at the edge of the network.
GT News, an association for financial professionals, just posted an article on managed file transfer titled “Data: Transferring the Burden Under PCI DSS” written Jonathan Lampe, VP of Product Management at Ipswitch.
“When evaluating for data security technology, a company should look at four categories: confidentiality, integrity, availability, and auditing. These headlines are designed to assist in assessing whether a data technology or process is likely to provide one-time compliance for the purposes of PCI DSS.”
This article is a very informative read for people living/coping with PCI DSS compliance and looking for a detailed application of MFT solutions to the 12 PCI DSS requirements. It’s also a good read for people that simply want to know more about MFT and want to learn about Jonathan’s framework for evaluating data security technologies.
IIS administrators, you may have already seen this attack listed on your favorite security sites.
Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/mass-sql-injection-attack-hits-sites-running-iis-061010
However, I have good news if you’re an Ipswitch customer running MOVEit DMZ or WS_FTP Server under IIS: the filtering mechanisms in both products designed to prevent many types of SQL injection prevent this one as well. Our hosted customers, whether Sendable users or MOVEit DMZ Hosting Services users, also benefit from the same filtering technology and are likewise safe.
You have a huge file. I’m talking 15GB big. And, it needs to be in the hands of its intended recipient as soon as possible.
You can’t send it through email (thanks, file attachment burden!) and you wouldn’t want to anyways, since it contains all sorts of sensitive information. You can’t put it on a thumb drive or burn it to a disc because those are easily misplaced and could end up in the wrong hands. And you certainly can’t send it through a courier service because that’s way too expensive and really, who has the time for that?
Sendable
So, how’s it gonna get there?
In the time that you wasted trying to figure out how to send that pesky little (ENORMOUS) file…the whole process could have been completed. No joke. You could have sent the file to your recipient’s email account, received a delivery notification, received a download notification, and possibly a phone call from your recipient saying “THANK YOU!!!”
How, do you ask? Why, with Sendable, of course!
