Managed File Transfer

Overview

Managed File Transfer (MFT) is a 100% outsourced solution from EasyLink that allows organizations to manage high-volume data exchanges safely and securely. You can consolidate all of your company’s communications streams through a single secure connection to our global Managed File Transfer service, where your business messaging can be managed and audited. EasyLink eliminates complexity, simplifies administration, reduces costs, optimizes security, and offloads the entire file transfer challenge from your IT staff.

 

Companies normally encounter many challenges related to the management of high volume data exchanges.

• Significant Governance and Compliance risks related to the low levels of security and controls around typical file transfer protocols.
• Little to no visibility into the success, failure or results of any file transfer.
• An inability to manage the complexity that comes with communicating with many different partners who use different messaging, security and transfer protocols.

 

EasyLink’s hosted Managed File Transfer solves all of these high-volume data exchange challenges and at the same time reduces the total cost of ownership.

• EasyLink Managed File Transfer enables you to establish a single, highly secured connection into the EasyLink Business Integration Network. EasyLink manages all of the connectivity, file movement, network protocol management, security and intrusion detection for you. You instantly gain a 24x7, 365 day per year Network Monitoring Center, a globally distributed and redundant data-center facility, and access to trained support staff via phone or e-mail 24x7. The bottom line is that your governance, security and compliance risks disappear overnight.
• EasyLink Managed File Transfer is not just a communication service, it’s Software as a Service. With EasyLink MFT, you can monitor your file transfers, detect errors and know instantly the status of every file moving between you and your partners. Visibility is gained the moment you start using our Hosted MFT application.
• It would be easy to think of EasyLink Managed File Transfer as strictly a technology solution; however that would be far from the truth. EasyLink MFT is a fully managed service. When your partner has trouble connecting – our team will work with them to fix the problem and test the connectivity. When you need to onboard multiple partners who all use different protocols and security certificates – our team will manage the process for you.

Features

Are each of your departments trying to manage their own file transfers? Does your IT department struggle to manage the sheer complexity of the connectivity issues with all of your partners? Has your Corporate Compliance department started to question the security and controls around how you exchange information?

EasyLink Managed File Transfer (MFT) helps you gain visibility, increase compliance, enhance governance and lower costs associated with the management of file exchanges between you and your partners.

 

EasyLink Managed File Transfer delivers a host of features and benefits:

• Combines a secure, fully-redundant global network for unparalleled availability
• Is a complete end-to-end service that manages the complexity of different network protocols for you, effectively eliminating the need for your organization to deal with the setup, management and maintenance of FTP servers, e-mail endpoints, security certificates and VPN’s
• Supports “any-to-any” connectivity for a true enterprise solution, allowing your partners to connect to you the way they would like
• Delivers global 24x7 support

EasyLink Hosted MFT is Software as a Service that delivers a combination of sophisticated communication endpoints with an on-line hosted website. Your applications, systems, users and partners can leverage any of a host of protocols to move files into and out of the Managed File Transfer service. You can monitor all of this from a centralized website that gives you complete audit trails, tracking of documents, exception notifications, alerting and alarming.

 

Some features of EasyLink Managed File Transfer include:

• Complete view of transactions and file movements using a centralized Software as a Service web application
• Support for all modern communication protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTP/S, AS2 and more
• High levels of security integration that include SSL, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and PGP Certificates
• Automated alerts and alarms
• Transfer of any type of document – large or small