Proactive MFT Security via Fortra's Threat Brain
Fortra’s Globalscape MFT has a unique threat intelligence advantage over other MFT solutions in the industry – Threat Brain. This built-in feature aggregates indicators from Fortra’s deep portfolio of cybersecurity solutions to continuously identify and block IPs with bad reputations or malicious intent before those threats enter the MFT environment.
Proactive Security Benefits for MFT Environments
With access to data from Fortra’s deep portfolio of cybersecurity products and vast customer network, Threat Brain continually aggregates, in real-time, risk information across all attack vectors so that Globalscape MFT customers can benefit from:
Consistent re-verification:
- With other MFT products, once an IP address is allowed, there is no ongoing monitoring. With Fortra’s solution however, IP reputations are checked with every new session to ensure it remains “safe.” Globalscape is the only solution in the marketplace that makes this proactive and consistent security feature available to all customers within the solution, provided there is internet access.
Massive threat intelligence database:
- Fortra’s MFT solutions benefit from Fortra’s broad cybersecurity portfolio (and its vast, worldwide customer database), creating a continual feed into the threat intelligence database of anonymized threat data collected from multiple Fortra products. No other MFT vendor has such integrated cybersecurity tools capable of tapping into this collected threat data.
- Layered protection:
- The ability to benefit from Fortra’s deep portfolio of cybersecurity intelligence and protection adds an additional layer of protection to customers’ sensitive data. Combined with Threat Protection and Zero Trust File Transfer, Fortra’s MFT solutions offer organizations unprecedented options for protecting sensitive data throughout the entire data lifecycle.
6 Reasons to Incorporate a Proactive Security Solution
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- Traditional threat intelligence for MFT is reactive versus proactive against cyberthreats.
- Traditional MFT solutions often detect Brute-Force or Denial of Service (DoS) attacks automatically, but only after the system has been attacked.
- Attacks may only be detectable through manual inspection of logs to identify suspicious activity in traditional solutions.
- Unknown vulnerabilities can be exploited/go undetected, leading to Zero Day incidents with solutions that are not continually checking for bad IP addresses.
- Cybercriminals systematically probe MFT service endpoints to evade automatic IP blocking mechanisms and mask their trail.
- In traditional MFT solutions, exploited vulnerabilities can be easily replicated across deployments, creating a domino effect.
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IP reputation checks for incoming HTTP/S connections, AS2, FTP, FTP/S, and SFTP protocols: These checks are executed on any connection request to access your Globalscape managed data.
Automatic blocking of IPs with low reputation scores: Adjustable sensitivity settings allow for customization of threat detection.
Provisioning allows for exceptions in case of false positives: When an IP address has been blocked due to low reputation, an admin can add an exception to allow the offending user/customer/partner to remedy the situation.
Auditing capabilities for rejected IP verdicts: An audit log details what was blocked and the reasons for blocking. Additionally, our Web Admin Client provides metrics on how many IPs have been blocked by Threat Brain.
Sample Use Case for Proactive Security Solution
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