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Compliance, Security & Control: How Business Drivers Killed FTP

FTP is the technology underpinning much of the information transmission conducted in today's corporate enterprise. But security concerns are changing this. FTP offers absolutely no security and is a fundamentally limiting technology; sweeping legislation (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, etc.) will not tolerate its use for the transmission of important or sensitive data. This brief details how advanced managed file transfer (MFT) solutions guarantee the security, control, and integrity of corporate information.

Service-Oriented Integration: Managed File Transfer within an SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) offer tremendous advantage for organizations looking to pursue an enterprise integration strategy. But integration strategies can fall unacceptably short when they focus solely on message-based approaches. These can include:

• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs)
• Integration Brokers
• Message-Oriented Middleware

Integration within an SOA will be most successful if it includes both message and file-based functionality. This paper looks at some common scenarios and identifies important issues organizations should be aware of.

Straight-through Processing with CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)™
Improving Performance and Security during Internet File Transfer
File-transfer technology has become increasingly critical to the enterprise business process as companies look to integrate with customers and business partners and drive global data movement strategies using the Internet. The need to secure business data in motion is a given but what happens when it reaches it destination? Many file-transfer solutions (not to mention FTP) deploy repository-based approaches, which introduce untold security risk at either end. Straight-through processing (STP) eliminates this risk by delivering data right into back-end applications (no repository required). This Brief looks at the major benefits of STP, particularly security, control, and efficiency.