New “Threat Brain” keeps Cyber Security Briefed and Vigilant

What if your enterprise IT systems were constantly informed of the latest emerging cyber threats, so they could proactively protect your precious data from cyber thieves?

That’s what Fortra’s new Threat Brain does for GoAnywhere, the world’s leading Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution.

Threat Brain provides a unique threat intelligence advantage over other MFT solutions.  It aggregates indicators from a deep portfolio of cybersecurity solutions to continuously identify and block IPs with bad reputation or malicious intent before those threats enter your organisation.

Other MFTs can only react to cyber threats. GoAnywhere proactively avoids them.

Threat Intelligence

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 GoAnywhere MFT.

Generic Systems Australia is a long-term distributor of GoAnywhere across the Asia-Pacific region. Threat Brain’s enhancements to GoAnywhere enable our customers to benefit from:

·         Consistent re-verification: With lesser MFTs, once an IP address has been allowed, there’s no ongoing monitoring. With GoAnywhere however, IP reputations are checked with every new session to ensure they remain safe.  GoAnywhere is the only solution in the marketplace that makes this proactive and consistent security feature available to all customers within the solution.

·         Massive threat intelligence database: Threat Brain continually aggregates threat intelligence from Fortra’s broad cybersecurity portfolio and its vast, worldwide (anonymised) customer database. No other MFT vendor offers such integrated cybersecurity tools capable of tapping into this collected threat data.

·         Layered protection: Fortra’s deep portfolio of cybersecurity intelligence and protection adds an additional layer of protection to customers’ sensitive data. Combined with Advanced Threat Protection, GoAnywhere sets the bar for protecting sensitive data in motion and at rest.

Proactive Security

GoAnywhere taps Threat Brain to perform on-demand IP reputation checks for incoming HTTP/S connections, AS2, and AS4 protocols.  These checks are executed on the GoAnywhere Web Client  and via API and API endpoints.

GoAnywhere automatically blocks IPs with low reputation scores. This IP blocking can be fine-tuned through adjustable sensitivity settings, while provisioning allows for exceptions in case of false positives. When an IP address has been blocked due to low reputation, a system administrator can add an exception to permit the IP address to be accessed.

Whenever GoAnywhere takes action to protect your systems and data, it’s recorded in an audit log detailing what was blocked and the reason it intervened.

Stay in the Know

When it comes to cyber security, it’s critical to be proactive vs reactive. While Brute Force or Denial-of-Service attacks may be detected automatically by traditional MFTs, this happens only after the system has been attacked. 

Local Expertise at the Ready

If you’d like help tapping GoAnywhere’s proactive capabilities for your organisation, please feel welcome to contact me. I have decades of experience as a long term distributor of GoAnywhere in Australia and New Zealand, and I’m always happy to have an obligation-free discussion and demonstrate its impressive capabilities.

At Generic Systems Australia, we’re your local experts in secure Managed File Transfer.