Why Your Business Needs PROACTIVE Cyber Security

Blocking cyber criminals before they gain access to your IT systems requires your cyber security solution to have access to, and pre-emptively act upon, the very latest intel on threats.

It needs an early warning system.

Activating the proactive features in your existing security solutions is a good first step to keeping bad actors out.  However, layering security with solutions that guard your data – instead of merely alerting you to breaches after the fact – is much better.

Six Reasons

Here are six reasons your organisation should consider making a proactive Managed File Transfer (MFT) security solution the foundation for your layered data security.

1. Traditional threat intelligence is reactive against cyberthreats rather than proactive.

2. While Brute Force and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks can be detected automatically, that’s only after your systems have come under attack. 

3. A vulnerability discovered by a cybercriminal in one business system can be quickly replicated across other businesses’ systems in a wave of copycat attacks. 

4. Some attacks may only be detectable through (all-too-infrequent) manual inspection of activity logs. 

5. New and previously unknown vulnerabilities can lead to Zero Day incidents, if cyber security solutions don’t continually check for bad IP addresses.

6. Cybercriminals systematically probe MFT service endpoints to evade automatic IP blocking. 

   
   

An Example

A manufacturing plant with multiple MFT deployments was concerned about rising cyberthreats and the potential for their systems to be compromised.  While they were confident in their MFT solution’s ability to protect sensitive data while in transit and in motion, their system didn’t pre-emptively detect bad actors or threats before they entered their MFT environment.

While they could add trusted IPs to their “allowed” list, that created a future level of risk. What if that IP address was subsequently compromised…? 

Thinking Ahead

GoAnywhere MFT, the world’s most fully-featured MFT, offers a unique proactive threat intelligence advantage over other lesser solutions, mitigating the risk of persistent IP address trust.

By simply turning on the feature in the latest version of GoAnywhere, organisations can leverage the dynamic intelligence database of Fortra’s Threat Brain.  This “brain” is comprised of data and indicators from Fortra’s deep portfolio of cybersecurity solutions.  It provides a forward-leaning approach to cybersecurity threats, blocking IPs with bad reputations or malicious intent before they enter the MFT environment.

When activated within GoAnywhere, Threat Brain pre-emptively blocks bad actors across all attack vectors, continually checking trustworthiness with each new session. 

Proactive Security Benefits for MFT

As a built-in module, Fortra’s dynamic cybersecurity intelligence database benefits GoAnywhere customers by:

• Consistent re-verification: An IP's reputation is re-checked with every session to ensure it remains safe”.  Other MFT products don’t offer this ongoing monitoring of IP addresses once they are white-listed.

• Comprehensive threat intelligence data sources: Threats detected in one of Fortra’s many security solutions is shared with the Threat Brain, increasing the overall intelligence data available to GoAnywhere MFT.

• Layered protection: Combined with Threat Protection and Zero Trust File Transfer, GoAnywhere provides unmatched options to safeguard data throughout the entire data lifecycle. 

  
  

Stay A Step Ahead of Cyber Crims

Blocking the door to your MFT environment can be as easy as enabling the Threat Brain module in GoAnywhere and determining which level of security you require to meet your organisation’s security mandates or compliance requirements.

If you’d like help tapping GoAnywhere’s proactive capabilities for your organisation, please feel welcome to contact me. I’m always happy to have an obligation-free discussion, demonstrate GoAnywhere’s capabilities, and even offer you a zero-cost Proof of Concept.

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