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Security conscious organizations are always looking for ways to tighten protection of the core information assets that are vital to their business. Best practices involving the protection of this information when it is in transit over a network include encryption through secure file transfer technologies and good record keeping through network file transfer auditing.
The challenge in implementing encryption and auditing for file transfers is that file transfer is oftentimes worker-driven and critical to the workflow of the business. These transfers, and the business processes of which they are a part, are not to be “messed with”; not unless you’re willing to be called out for disrupting someone’s productivity.
But what if you could non-invasively add encryption and auditing to the file transfers your business workers are performing? What’s more, what if you could seamlessly extend this encryption and network file transfer auditing to new file transfers with new systems that users find necessary to interact with?
In FileXpress 7.1, which was just released, Attachmate is providing capabilities that enable just these solutions. With the release of FileXpress Internet Server 7.1, organizations now have the ability to seamlessly redirect client connections to target file transfer servers through the FileXpress Internet Server, which delivers the benefits of secure file transfer protocols, centralized network file transfer auditing, and access control at user and group levels.
The client utility is the FileXpress Desktop Client, an intuitive, drag-and-drop file transfer tool. Users can configure it to connect to a range of file transfer server types, including those running FTP, FTPS (SSL/TLS), and SFTP (SSH). However, behind the scenes, communications are routed through the FileXpress Internet Server. This means that users are able to configure new connections to new file transfer servers, but those file transfers first pass through the Internet Server for auditing and logging.
The FileXpress Internet Server provides configuration panels that allow an administrator to control such things as:
- Permitted target systems – users can only configure connections to target servers allowed by the FileXpress administrator. Wildcard values for target system names are supported.
- Permitted client protocols – the use of secure communication protocols between the client and the FileXpress Internet Server can be required. These include both FTPS (SSL/TLS) and SFTP (SSH).
- Permitted users and groups – control can be set up to define which users have the ability to create new connections to permitted file transfer servers
Now that all client transfers are routed through the FileXpress Internet Server, a central audit record of each file transfer can be kept, searched for, and reported on. This capability provides the perfect balance of allowing the administrator to control protocols and destinations, without needing to micro-manage each transfer destination.
Ultimately, this means your organization has more control and visibility over user-driven and user-configured file transfer, but still provides the agility end users require in order to quickly complete assigned tasks.
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