More about secure file transfer solutions from IBM
Help ensure security-rich, reliable data movement with solutions from IBM. Secure file transfer solutions from IBM establish enterprise-wide control over your data transfer processes.
For example, deploying IBM Sterling Connect:Direct supports your efforts to comply with government regulations and safeguard the data that moves across your
network. IBM Sterling Control Center gives you the visibility you need to better manage data and proactively manage service level agreements. And IBM Sterling
Control Center Director enables you to centrally update and configure IBM Sterling Connect:Direct nodes — as well as easily scale your managed file transfer
environment.
Secure file transfer
With a fast, scalable, and market-leading file transfer platform, you
can share and track information that is important to your business
and your trading partners.
Enterprise file transfer
Enable security-hardened, point-to-point file transfers for
high-volume delivery of files within and among enterprises.
B2B governance and compliance
To be proactive about compliance, extend governance to important
B2B integration and managed file transfer (MFT) exchanges.
Secure Proxy
Advanced edge security for your multi-enterprise data exchanges
and secure partner access to your internal servers.
IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer
Control over your data transfer process
Move over 1 million files per day with a fast, scalable, market-leading file transfer platform, and boost file
transfer confidence with Secure File Transfer.
With the volume and size of files growing each year, customer and supplier needs will drive complex networks
and cybersecurity threats more than ever before. Secure file transfer solutions from IBM establish
enterprise-wide control over your data transfer processes.
IBM® Sterling Secure File Transfer provides a unified file transfer platform so you can share and track
mission-critical information movement within your enterprise and across your trading partner network with
peace of mind. Get the benefit of the most trusted managed file transfer solution.
Key features
- Consolidated, enterprise-grade file transfer platform.
- End-to-end visibility and governance.
- Scalable file transfer.
- Advanced security capabilities.
- Highly available architecture.
- Reliable and automated file transfers.
Benefits of IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer
Protect your data
Secure files while they're at rest and while they're in transit to meet regulations and make sure they arrive safely.
Reduce risk by being proactive
Monitor file activity with end-to-end visibility and governance to detect faults and improve your SLA performance.
Reduce complexity
Foster user engagement and confidence with approachable user interfaces and flexible RESTful APIs.
High performance
Handles your most demanding file movement workloads, from high volumes to huge multimedia files.
Key features
- Containers that have been certified for consistent deployment lifecycle management.
- Performance capabilities that include unprecedented scalability and reduced latency.
- Automated, reliable file transfer that supports 24-hour unattended operations.
- Designed for multiple platforms, including IBM z/OS, OpenVMS, i5/OS, HP NonStop, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux.
- Advanced security features with cutting-edge encryption satisfy regulatory and industry requirements.
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct
Moving files with confidence
Reliable and secure file transfer is a growing need in organisations as digitalisation is intended destination within the right time window, so the receiving application can
process and act upon it consistently avoiding delays to an organisation’s critical business processes.
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct is designed from the ground up specifically for enterprise-class file transfer. It eliminates the need for manual intervention in data
delivery, improving the productivity of an organisation’s IT department and the reliability of its business processes. The latest version of IBM Sterling Connect:Direct
6.1 has all the capabilities to move an organisation’s files with confidence and has been optimised for high-volume, assured delivery of data within and between
enterprises, and provides script-based automation, scheduling and alert notifications for 24x7 unattended operations.
Benefits of IBM Sterling Connect:Direct
Reliable file delivery
Provides automated scheduling, checkpoint restart, and automatic recovery to help ensure predictable, assured delivery of files.
Secure file transfer
Helps keep customer information private and supports regulatory compliance measures.
High performance
Handles your most demanding workloads, from high volumes of small files to multi-gigabyte files.
Reduce installation and patch time
When you put your solution in a certified container with all the necessary parts, installation and patching take much less time, from hours to minutes.
IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor
Your single pane of glass for visibility
The norm for average file size, frequency of transfers and size of environments are increasing. As a business
grows, environments need to grow to support them, while visibility and governance are the drivers to help
manage these challenges.
Organisations make significant investments in building out B2B and managed file transfer (MFT) networks for
greater supply chain efficiency, reliability, compliance and risk mitigation. However, the emphasis shifted with
an urgency to a self-service type of solution where an organisation’s limited IT resources don’t have to be
further worn out.
IBM Sterling Control Center offers the support and solution as a single pane of glass for visibility across
applications, systems, and platforms to monitor all the organisation’s solutions, regardless of location. It gives
operations personnel the capability to continuously monitor the status of Configuration Managers, engines,
and adapters across the enterprise from one central location. That would include server types such as IBM
Sterling Connect:Direct, B2B Integrator, File Gateway, Sterling Connect:Express, QuickFile and many FTP
servers.
Key features
- Improve the management of a distributed infrastructure.
- Increase customer satisfaction with transparency.
- Improve governance and compliance through monitoring.
- Common, unified interface.
- Version control reduces errors and downtime.
- Security policy tools improve compliance.
Benefits of IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor
Improve visibility
Monitor file transfers and B2B processes. Align server views with operational logic. Identify schedules, processes, file names, user roles, and security capabilities.
Increase customer satisfaction
Give LOB proactive visibility into events that affect SLAs through browser access, dashboards, notifications of process failures, one-click problem interrogation, and more.
Improve governance and compliance
Continuous control monitoring and audit reporting. Consolidate file transfer and B2B processing event data from all B2B and MFT systems for a single, consolidated view.
Key features
- Demilitarized zone (DMZ) application proxy.
- Firewall navigation best practices.
- Perimeter security.
- Multifactor authentication.
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy
Increased perimeter security to protect your organisation
Moving data efficiently is a critical component for success in any business today. As leased lines give way to
the benefits of the internet, so too comes the need for additional levels of security as trusted information
comes in closer proximity to the public internet.
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy is a DMZ-based application software proxy enabling secure and high-speed data
movement over the internet. It provides increased perimeter security to protect the organisation’s trusted
zone, as well as authentication services to prevent unauthorised access to its business-critical internal
systems. It integrates with the organisation’s existing security infrastructure to meet security and audit
requirements while also supporting compliance regulations and incorporating industry standards and best
practices.
Benefits of IBM Sterling Secure Proxy
Data protection
Provides firewall navigation best practises to help ensure perimeter security for enhanced protection of your data and trusted zone.
Full authentication services
Offers multifactor authentication before connection to backend systems for tighter controls and validation.
Advanced proxy features
Includes proxy support and functions to improve the security of edge-based file exchanges.
Dynamic routing
Provides advanced routing to simplify infrastructure changes, saving time and reducing risk during migrations.