Managed File Transfer and the "Subservient Chicken"
The other day a friend at a biotech company asked me how Safe-T differed from other managed file transfer solutions. While I talked a lot about flexibility and extensibility, I couldn't find a nice analogy... until now. And it's Burger King's Subservient Chicken.
Why? Because we deliver MFT the way you like it. Safe-T's Unified Platform architecture was designed from the get-go to be flexible and extensible. This allows you to configure your Safe-T solution the way you like it, so it precisely fits the needs of your business.

So where do you want to locate your Safe-T server? Maybe inside your network where it's most secure? Or in your DMZ so no third-parties can cross the firewall? We might have our preference, even a strong one, but at the end of the day the choice is yours. And you want to use a reverse proxy? Sure, which one? Ours, Cisco's, Microsoft's or Juniper's? Again, it's your choice. MFT the way you like it.

 

While we might not have a configurable system parameter for each of the Subservient Chicken's 300 commands, we do have a lot of them (sorry, we've never counted). Here's a partial list:

  • Where the Safe-T server sits on your network
  • The minimum size for attachments to be sent through Safe-T (actually you can send all attachments through Safe-T)
  • Whether you can send a "megamail" from Outlook, a Web interface or a Windows Explorer extension
  • Where attachments are stored on your network
  • Where incoming files from third-parties are stored on your network
  • Whether one-time passwords are optional or mandatory for downloading an attachment
  • Whether emails and/or attachments are encrypted
  • How many times a file can be downloaded
  • How long a link to a file is valid
  • How much bandwidth is allocated to Safe-T file transfers
  • Whether you get a delivery confirmation and or whether it's via email or SMS
  • How often Safe-T automatically cleans up stored files
  • What types of files can be transferred by individual employees or workgroups
  • And many, many, many more

Complementary to Safe-T's flexibility is its extensibility. Our Unified Platform architecture offers hooks and other mechanisms--including an open API--for adding new capabilities to Safe-T without time-consuming or costly changes to the system. Benefits of Safe-T's extensibility include:

  • Adding support for new or custom protocols within hours
  • Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory
  • Supporting a variety of proxy servers
  • Integrating with DLP solutions
  • Easily creating new tasks or triggers for automatic file transfers
  • Building your own file transfer user interface
  • Integrating Safe-T into corporate portals or Intranets
  • Easily integrating with your ERP and CRM solutions
  • Easily integrating with existing IT solutions whether home-grown or third-party
In other words, Safe-T is a hub for managed file transfer. It controls the file transfer, but let's you decide the rest... whether it's system parameters, policies or integrating it with other tools and solutions that you've already got in place. Simply put, Safe-T delivers MFT as you like it.

 


Louis Gordon
Written on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 00:00 by Louis Gordon

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