Managed File Transfer: When DLP Is Not Enough White Paper Summary

If you have a DLP implementation in place or are considering one shortly, your data-in-motion should be safe, right? Not exactly.

Protection of data-in-motion goes beyond stopping leaks and protecting email. You need to safeguard all types of network traffic containing sensitive information. Your content-aware DLP product can inspect and filter the flood of outbound traffic that your employees generate every day. It can identify sensitive information to stop leaks and can usually redirect email for more secure delivery. It can also identify high-risk network traffic that needs to be sent with a more secure process, but it cannot deliver it safely.

Managed File Transfer solutions specifically address the high risk data-in-motion that your DLP product can only identify, but cannot adequately protect.  Managed File Transfer (MFT) products enforce your security policies, provide visibility and monitoring of ongoing transmissions, collect data for internal and external audits, and integrate with your current DLP solutions and other infrastructure applications.

This white paper reviews how Data Loss Prevention monitoring can identify high-risk network traffic that requires intervention and how your IT staff can use a Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution to reduce your business risk from these transfers.