WS_FTP Server
WS_FTP Professional and WS_FTP Server
To ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your files, you must protect them not only while they are at rest, but also while they are in motion. As hackers become more savvy, and compliance and corporate governance requirements become more stringent, using a “pretty good” file transfer solution simply isn’t good enough.
Combining our WS_FTP Professional secure file transfer client with any of our WS_FTP Server solutions gives you a best-in-class secure file transfer solution that will protect data from exposure – and your company from productivity loss, fines for noncompliance, and a tarnished public image.
Our combined client-server solutions deliver optimised performance and security and give administrators a simple way to monitor, track, audit, and control how data moves within, to, and from their organisation. This ensures that the right people have access to the data they need – and that confidential information isn’t getting into the wrong hands.
With a WS_FTP client-server solution, you’ll immediately gain all the functionality of our individual WS_FTP Server and WS_FTP Professional products. You will also achieve several unique benefits, including:
- Best-in-class security: Our client-server solutions use the strongest encryption, authentication, access control, and integrity checking on the market. So you can rest assured that there are no weak links in your data management process.
- Control and compliance: Robust security matched with superior auditing capabilities will enable you to exceed compliance requirements, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, CoBIT, and many more.
- A standardised and cost-effective solution: Standardizing across your organisation with WS_FTP Server solutions and the WS_FTP Professional file transfer client ensures that everyone connecting to your server is using the strongest and most innovative security measures available. These client-server solutions also streamline sourcing, administration, training, and support.
Client-Server Solutions Features
In addition to the industry-leading individual features of our WS_FTP Professional and WS_FTP Server solutions, using our client and server products together provides several distinct and optimised benefits, including:
Optimise Client-Server Security
Anti-Hammering
Identify, log and automatically block IP addresses and subnets that attempt consecutive failed logon attempts.
FIPS 140-2 Validated Cryptography
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) approved and validated cryptography up to and including 256-bit AES encryption over SSL and SSH protocols.
Secure Copy (SCP2)
Secure Copy over SCP2 enables secure file transfers using the Secure Shell (SSH2) protocol and provides easy interoperability with Linux and Unix systems.
Login Authentication Encryption
Ensure that all credentials for every client-server connection are secured and never sent unprotected.
Strongest Transfer Encryption
256-bit Advanced Encryption Standards (AES) transfer encryption over SSL / FTPS, SSH / SFTP, and SCP2 protocols.
SSH Key Management
SSH user keys can be imported and exported to and from Windows, Unix, and Linux.
File Integrity
Guarantee the integrity and non-repudiation of transferred files and data with file integrity algorithms including CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 technologies.
OpenPGP File Encryption
Encrypt individual files with fully integrated public-key/private-key file encryption that supports AES and 3DES ciphers, key strengths from 1,024 to 4,096 bits, and RSA and Diffie-Hellman key types with expirable keys.
Digital Certificate Management
Implement and manage secure and encrypted server access by quickly adding, creating, and importing certificates and running them through a company’s existing trusted-authorities database.
Enforce Secure Client-Server Connections
Ability for administrators to force SSL or SSH connections, define minimum encryption levels, and specify connection requirements, such as TLS 1.0 or higher.
Strong Password Policies
Include auto-expiring passwords and guidelines for strong password creation that require users to reset their password at any time on an ongoing basis.
Control and Compliance
Storage Utilisation Displayed to Connecting WS_FTP Professional Clients
Users connecting to WS_FTP Server with the soon-to-be-released WS_FTP Professional 2007.1 file transfer client get a real-time view of their server disk space utilisation.
FIPS 140-2 cryptography
Meets federal cryptographic requirements with FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography up to 256-bit AES encryption over SSL and SSH.
Client-Server Logging
Capture client-server connections and activities related to the storage and transfer of files with the ability to filter, sort, and export logs for customised reporting.
Administration Logging
Keep an auditable record of server administrator actions, control the level of detail that gets logged, and filter, sort, and export logs for customised reporting.
Syslog Support
Integrate WS_FTP logs with a company database or central data repository.
Web Administration
Remote server administration and management from any Internet connection.
Separation of Duties
Create host administrators who can only manage specified hosts.
Real-time View of Client Connections
View client and server connections with ability to drop users and create and manage black lists for blocking IPs.
End-User Records
End users can keep records of their WS_FTP usage with Transfer Manager, Transfer History, and Connection Log.
Standardisation and Flexible Licensing
Virtualisation: Central Management and Deployment
Citrix® and Microsoft® terminal servers software management enables administrators to manage and rapidly deploy WS_FTP Professional on multiple computers right from a central server.
Silent Install
Customise installation configuration and quickly get multiple server deployments with unattended bulk installations up and running remotely.
Customisation and Integration
Choice of Databases – Use the embedded WS_FTP Server database or integrate with an existing Microsoft® SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server Express for both user authentication and server system configuration.
Choice of Web Servers
Use the default standards-based Web server that ships with WS_FTP Server or integrate with Microsoft IIS for powering the Web administration interface.
Syslog Support
Integrate WS_FTP logs with a company database or central logging repository.
Flexible User Authentication
Leverage existing user databases, including LDAP, Active Directory, NT, Ipswitch IMail, or any ODBC compliant database. Active Directory integration enables robust filtering so that only appropriate users are able to authenticate.
