Increased IT complexity, regulatory compliance obligations and senior management demands for greater efficiency are rapidly rendering general-purpose file transfer solutions incapable of meeting current business needs. To address these challenges, proactive businesses have been shifting from traditional solutions to managed file transfer (MFT) servers. 

When you transfer documents as part of business operations, security is crucial. The growing volume of sensitive information involved in these activities puts businesses at greater risk of a data breach. If that information falls into the wrong hands, your business could suffer from reputational damage, lawsuits, regulatory penalties and other business-impacting consequences. 

When you decide to adopt a cloud-first strategy for your business file transfer and file sharing workflows, you should consider several critical factors. Your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) secure file transfer solution must not only align with your organization’s security needs, but it should also support compliance requirements, promote user adoption, simplify IT management, integrate seamlessly with existing systems, and enable business process automation. 

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is your file transfer systems' first line of defense. With phishing attacks and compromised credentials being two of the most common threats any system faces, MFA has become the recommended standard for file transfer accounts because it mitigates the risk that compromising any authentication method will grant system access.

What is Single Sign-On (SSO)?

In today’s interconnected world, secure and reliable file transfers are vital to business processes. While enterprises have often turned to traditional solutions like File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) servers to handle their data transfers, these solutions are no longer capable of meeting current business needs on their own. 

For several decades, SFTP, which stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol or SSH File Transfer Protocol, has been arguably the most widely used solution for transferring sensitive data across the internet. In the past few years, however, we’ve seen increased adoption of what’s known as SFTP cloud. 

When it comes to securely transferring files over the internet, the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) stands out as one of the most trusted and reliable solutions available. Its core security features make it extremely popular among organizations that handle sensitive data. Many of our customers, spanning diverse sectors such as financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, logistics, defense, research, aerospace and e-commerce, rely on SFTP to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of their data transfers.

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Many of our customers use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for their business file transfers. While SFTP is certainly a good choice for organizations looking to securely transfer multiple files or large files directly to their intended recipient, it’s not the only solution suited for that purpose. In this post, we’ll review seven secure FTP alternatives and discuss their advantages and disadvantages compared to what many consider the de-facto standard for secure, multi-file and large file transfers.