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Secure FTP Solutions (SFTP)


Secure FTP has been developed in close co-operation with a major insurance company to provide additional audit and management to open SFTP products in order to meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements. It is a cost effective solution that may be installed at one side of the data transfer without being tied to any proprietary protocol. It is designed for use in most enterprise environments and to be flexible & adaptable to suit an unlimited range of needs for secure file transfer internally and externally.   

The Ministry of Data provides Secure SFTP solutions as a managed client service in our data centres and nuclear bunkers across Europe, if you are interested in buying this software please email licensing@ministryofdata.org

 

 

Secure FTP is provided as a fully supported server and/or client for enterprises who wish to use the security of SSH with open standards together with additional audit and automation for enterprise file transfers. Transfers may be made to/from internal as well as third party external SFTP servers/clients with NO requirement for additional software at the other side. Secure FTP enables both sides to have the same audit and control - if preferred.

 

Additional functionality and benefits include:

Secure FTP can easily be adapted and standard facilities include:

·  Automatic transfer to single or multiple destinations of any file.

·  Monitor an 'inbox' directory for a file, or wait for a triggering event.

·  Take a copy of the file and generate a checksum.

·  All actions audited

·  Alerts raised for specified conditions – including email

·  Option to retrieve a response file after a successful upload

·  Option to add date and timestamp to avoid duplicate names

·  Pre and post processing available for transfers

·  Secure FTP client runs as a service in Windows (Unix/Linux as a daemon)

·  All files archived with a date & time stamp

·  Support for FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL)

·  Support for HTTP and HTTPS

·  Server & client editions

·  Centralised administration

·  Database for authentication

 

Some Satisfied Clients include:

·  Ministry of Defence

·  NHS East Birmingham

·  CAP Gemini  

·  EDS

·  Mitas

·  Standard Life

Secure FTP features/benefits/requirements - further details on request

This is only intended as a quick checklist for initial guidance.

Features/Benefits/Requirements  

Secure FTP

 

 X = included

Availability and compatibility

 

Server edition

X

Client edition

X

Client/server transfers

X

Supports other clients/servers

X

 

Transfers

 

Fully automated

X

Scheduling

X

drag 'n' drop

X

monitor an 'inbox' directory

X

wait for a triggering event

X

Email Notification

X

OS Specific Notifies

X

Client Send

X

Client Receive

X

single & multiple destinations

X

Directory transfers

X

 

Encryption & protocols

 

AES, 3DES, Blowfish etc

X

Proprietary protocol

 

SSH/SSH2/SFTP support

X

FTPS (FTP over SSL) support

X

HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) support

X

MD5 checksum

X

 

Retries

 

by number of retries

X

by time

X

Guaranteed delivery

X

Checkpoint Restart

X

Recoverable Work Queue

X

 

Control

 

Throttling of Transfers

 

Compression

X

File to File

X

Command Line

X

automated pre processing

X

automated post processing

X

automated response processing

X

Time stamp

X

API

X

TCP/IP

X

 

 

Administration

 

Centralised administration 

X

Separate user database

X

Flexible reports - see below also 

X

 

Audit

 

Notifications inc SMTP

X

Logs to event logs

X

Logs to database

X

SNMP

X

Automatic archive

X

 

Authentication - see below for additional detail

Native authentication

X

Database for authentication

X

Cached Passwords

X

Public/private key

X

 

Platform Support

 

Windows

X

UNIX (Sun, AIX, HP-UX) 

X

Unix - Tru64

X

Linux (Intel)

X

Linux - PPC/iSeries

X

Linux - Sparc

X

Linux - Alpha

X

Linux - 390

Mar-06

OS/390

Mar-06

AS/400

Apr-06

Mac OSX

Feb-06

OpenVMS

Apr-06

 

 

Trial, Implementation & long term Support

 

Email & telephone during trial

X - free

On-site during trial

X

Email & telephone during implementation

X - free

On-site during implementation

X

Email & telephone - long term - with support package

X

On-site - long term

X

Worldwide coverage

X