Secure Your Managed File Transfer Environment with The MFT Shield

Your Managed File Transfer System is a Target

In recent years, attackers have increasingly targeted Managed File Transfer systems. These systems are the workhorses of modern businesses, moving some of your most sensitive and business-critical data, including patient records, financial information, intellectual property and confidential documents, to name just a few.

Relying on the built-in security of your MFT system alone is no longer enough. That's why, drawing on over two decades of experience in secure file transfer, the Pro2col team developed The MFT Shield - an extra layer of security designed to strengthen your MFT environment.

You Can't Afford Not to Protect Your MFT Environment

Managed File Transfer platforms are critical to modern business operations, moving sensitive business data between customers, partners, employees and applications. However, their importance also makes them an attractive target for cyber attackers.

Over recent years, attackers have increasingly targeted internet-facing systems. As with any system connected to the internet, file transfer solutions are not immune to these risks and therefore require appropriate security controls, regular maintenance, and ongoing monitoring to minimise the risk of compromise.

For many organisations, securing their own internal environment is no longer enough. Partners, suppliers and third parties with access to file transfer processes can introduce additional risk.

Harden Your MFT Security with The MFT Shield

The MFT Shield creates a secure barrier between external traffic and your core Managed File Transfer system, stopping external sources and potential risk from interacting directly with your business-critical MFT environment.

Instead, incoming file transfers are routed through The MFT Shield, where data can be assessed, monitored, and managed before reaching your internal IT layer, giving organisations complete visibility and control over the data entering your systems.

A New Era of Security with The MFT Shield

The MFT Shield is a unique hybrid deployment approach designed to add an additional layer of protection around your core file transfer environment, helping organisations reduce risk and strengthen their MFT security posture.

Rather than allowing external file traffic to interact directly with your primary environment, The MFT Shield creates a secure buffer designed to absorb risk before it reaches your critical business systems. This isolated layer provides organisations with greater control over incoming file transfers, allowing files to be assessed, monitored and managed before they interact with internal infrastructure.

Expert MFT Security Deployment for Enterprise Organisations

MFT security is changing. We’ve created this resource to give you a clear understanding of how The MFT Shield works alongside your core MFT environment, why an additional layer of protection matters, and how it can strengthen your critical file transfers.

At Pro2col, we’ve helped hundreds of organisations globally design, deploy and optimise their MFT security strategies. We work closely with organisations to understand their existing infrastructure, security requirements and long-term objectives, ensuring their Shield is tailored to deliver the right level of protection and performance.

Expert MFT Security Deployment for Enterprise Organisations

Implementing an effective MFT Shield requires more than choosing the right solution, it requires the right strategy, configuration and expertise to ensure your environment is secure, resilient and built around your business needs.

At Pro2col, we’ve helped hundreds of organisations globally design, deploy and optimise their MFT security strategies. We work closely with each organisation to understand their existing infrastructure, security requirements and long-term objectives, ensuring their MFT Shield is tailored to deliver the right level of protection and performance.

Discover More About The MFT Shield

Learn how to deploy an additional layer of security across your core MFT environment and protect your critical file transfer processes.

An introduction to the MFT Shield and the challenges driving its adoption

Security benefits of isolating external file transfers and reducing the attack surface

Best practices for enhancing MFT security reinforcing your MFT Shield

The complete MFT Shield architecture diagram with step-by-step walkthrough

Shield deployment guidance for integrating alongside your core environment

Recommended actions and next steps for a successful implementation

The Expertise Behind The
MFT Shield

Pro2col are global leaders in file transfer, with specialists across the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of MFT solutions. We’ve supported clients through real-world exploits, seeing first-hand how quickly a vulnerability in an MFT platform can become a serious business risk.

In reality, no software can ever be guaranteed to be completely free from vulnerabilities or zero-day exploits. So, as experts, we asked what more could we do to protect our clients against these risks - one that didn’t rely on the security of the MFT software itself.

Drawing on our knowledge and experience across the file transfer industry, Pro2col went away and created The MFT Shield that removes all risk of external threats interacting directly with it.

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As global experts in Secure File Transfer, many of our clients come to us with the same question: How can I secure my MFT environment?

It’s a question that led us to create The MFT Shield. By adding an additional layer of protection around your core MFT environment and creating a secure boundary between external sources and your MFT system, The MFT Shield stops direct exposure to external threats and gives organisations greater control over the data entering their environment.

There are also a number of additional measures organisations can take to strengthen their MFT security. These include keeping MFT software up to date, applying strong access controls and authentication, encrypting data in transit and at rest, monitoring file transfer activity, maintaining detailed audit logs and regularly reviewing your MFT environment.

For a more comprehensive approach, it’s also worth considering a Zero Trust approach to data transfer. This takes the principle of “never trust, always verify” and applies it to how data is exchanged between organisations, systems and users.

Managed File Transfer systems are used to move sensitive and business-critical information between customers, partners and systems. This makes them an attractive target for attackers. A vulnerability or unknown weakness in an MFT platform could potentially expose the data moving through it or provide bad actors with a route into your core systems.

Even well-secured software can contain previously unknown vulnerabilities or be targeted by zero-day exploits. Taking a layered approach to MFT security can help reduce your exposure and provide additional protection around your file transfer environment.

The MFT Shield is a unique approach to strengthening Managed File Transfer security. Rather than replacing your existing MFT solution, it adds an additional security layer between external file exchanges and your core file transfer infrastructure.

By introducing an isolated environment for incoming file transfers, the MFT Shield helps organisations reduce their attack surface, contain potential threats and strengthen the security of critical data exchanges. It is designed to complement your existing MFT platform while supporting a layered, Zero Trust approach to file transfer security.

Want to see how it works? Download the MFT Shield Guide to explore the complete architecture, deployment model and security benefits.

The MFT Shield is designed to do just that. By introducing an additional security layer between external traffic and your core MFT environment, organisations can scan incoming file transfers and monitor, assess and manage data before it interacts directly with their core Managed File Transfer system.

This creates a controlled point between external traffic and your internal environment, giving organisations greater visibility over the files entering their systems.

No. The MFT Shield is designed to work alongside your existing Managed File Transfer solution, not replace it.

Whether you're using GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Globalscape EFT, or another enterprise MFT platform, The MFT Shield is a unique hybrid infrastructure deployment, providing an additional layer of protection that sits between external users and your core file transfer environment.

This allows organisations to enhance security without disrupting existing workflows, integrations or business processes, while helping to reduce the risk of external threats reaching critical systems.

Speak to our MFT specialists to discuss how The MFT Shield can be integrated with your existing environment.

Protect Your Critical Data with The MFT Shield

The MFT Shield: Next Generation of Security

Your Managed File Transfer System is a Target

You Can't Afford Not to Protect Your MFT Environment

Harden Your MFT Security with The MFT Shield

A New Era of Security with The MFT Shield

Expert MFT Security Deployment for Enterprise Organisations

Expert MFT Security Deployment for Enterprise Organisations