< News Nine Real World Experts Share How They’re Leveraging GoAnywhere 13 Feb 2025 A great way to learn about the value of a Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution is to hear from those who use one. Fortra have published a useful eBook “MFT's Role in Business: IT Leaders Weigh In” in which nine IT and security professionals share their experiences using Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT . Meet the Experts · Chris Payne, Director of Strategic Alliances & Technical, Pro2col · Paulina Sumska, Regional & Supplier Security Coordinator, Canon · Heath Kath, Lead Solutions Engineer, Fortra · Christian Toon, Head of Cyber Professional Services, Pinsent Masons · Antonio Sanchez, Principal Evangelist, Fortra · Jay Triche, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Lamps Plus · Steve Merrigan, IT Operations Senior Specialist, BT · Loveleen Trotter, Solutions Architect, Fletcher Building · Matthew Hankinson, Infrastructure Manager, Seven Network MFT in Action MFT enables organisations to transfer large quantities and sizes of files securely and quickly, every time. It: · leverages secure file transfer protocols; · encrypts file transfers; and · employs authentication and authorisation to their recipients safely. However, as the class-leading MFT , GoAnywhere MFT goes several steps further. It turbo-charges your organisation’s efficiency by replacing repetitive, manual processes with centralised, automated, and fully-compliant ones. Unsafe legacy scripts can be replaced with automated workflows. Files transfer securely, when and where you say, and without a team of people spending valuable resources - every time - to ensure it happens. Large files can be sent quickly. GoAnywhere’s built-in transfer technologies accelerate file transfers at speeds up to 10Gbps - hundreds of times faster than typical FTP. And it achieves that even in environments experiencing packet loss or latency. GoAnywhere also features bundles for threat protection and secure collaboration. You can secure all incoming files against malware, encrypt all outgoing files, and even control access permissions once they’ve left your network. Encryption and compliance are further benefits. Files stay safe at rest and in motion, which builds trust and credibility across supply chain partners. With so much data transfer occurring in cloud environments, GoAnywhere MFT deploys on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud computing platforms to give you the same level of coverage no matter where you keep – or send – your data. Leveraging MFT As the experts explain in the eBook, organisations can scale their use of GoAnywhere’s features and technologies, starting with the basics and then exploring and expanding the solution’s more advanced features to supplant operations traditionally performed by specialised middleware. From integrating with web services to drive automation, to customising unique solutions complete with bespoke emails, nearly any file transfer capability is possible. If you’re wondering “could an MFT do that?”, this eBook may well have the answer. And with GoAnywhere MFT, that answer most often is “Yes!” If you’d like a complimentary copy of “MFT's Role in Business: IT Leaders Weigh In”, just let us know via the link on our Resources page. Previous Next

< News Is Your Greatest Cyber Risk “Inside the Building”…? 22 May 2026 Most organisations focus their cyber security efforts on fortifying their networks against external attackers. However, firewalls, endpoint protection, and threat intelligence feeds don’t matter if someone on the inside simply hands over the keys to your data. Fresh research suggests that a worrying number of employees are prepared to do exactly that. A Workplace Fraud Trends study by Cifas has revealed that around one in eight UK employees have either sold company login details in the past year or personally know someone who has done so. The results were even more alarming when it came to who was most likely to justify this behaviour… Surprising Seniority It wasn’t disgruntled junior staff. Rather, the research points squarely at senior leadership. As reported by Infosecurity magazine, 32% of senior managers, 36% of directors, 43% of executives, and an astonishing 81% of business owners believe that selling access to company systems can be acceptable in certain circumstances. Cyber security professionals know that’s not true. Once an outsider has a legitimate set of credentials, they effectively become an insider, inheriting the same trust, permissions, and ability to move through systems undetected. That’s a cybercriminal jackpot. A valid username and password is the most efficient bypass of every security control your IT team has painstakingly put in place. That’s why every employee - regardless of seniority - must understand the importance of keeping their system access credentials confidential. However, with economic uncertainty, job insecurity, automation anxiety, and rising living costs, the temptation to make a quick buck by selling credentials is likely to grow. That’s why organisations need to put in place technical safeguards to backstop the trust they put in their employees. Technical Safety Net Managed File Transfer (MFT) acts as a powerful safety net when insider behaviour becomes a threat. Even if an attacker gains a valid username and password, an MFT platform forces all file movement through a tightly controlled, policy‑driven channel. Every transfer is authenticated, encrypted, logged, and monitored, which means stolen credentials alone don’t grant free‑form access to sensitive data. Automated workflows, IP restrictions, device‑fingerprinting, and multi‑factor requirements create friction that criminals can’t easily bypass, and the audit trail exposes any unusual behaviour instantly. As per the phrase Ronald Reagan once popularised, organisations need to “trust, but verify”. Every employee, from intern to owner, is a potential point of failure if they view their credentials as a commodity. Local Experts Available At Generic Systems Australia , we're a global leader in implementing the world's best MFT - Fortra's GoAnywhere. As one of Fortra’s top MFT partners globally, we've helped dozens of Australian and NZ organisations leverage the protection and efficiency offered by GoAnywhere. And we're right here in Australia, ready to share our deep expertise with you. Previous Next

< News Make Your Supply Chain “Digitally Resilient” 28 Apr 2026 With the war in Iran disrupting business supply chains globally, Australian business leaders are increasingly turning their minds to their own supply chain resilience. The shockwaves from geopolitical instability have exposed how fragile global logistics networks can be when data flows are fragmented, manual, or opaque. However, supply chain resilience isn’t just about physical goods moving from A to B. It’s also about the integrity, visibility, and security of the information that orchestrates those movements. MFT for Resilience Managed File Transfer (MFT) should play a key role in your supply chain resilience. It provides a single, secure backbone for exchanging files between partners, systems, and territories. Instead of relying on ad‑hoc scripts, unsecured email attachments, or legacy FTP servers, MFT enforces encryption, authentication, and auditability across every transfer. When supply chains are under stress, this reliability becomes mission‑critical. MFT enables orders, manifests, compliance documents, and sensor data to continue to flow even as external conditions fluctuate. It adds up to business continuity. Efficiency Beyond security, MFT strengthens resilience through automation and visibility. It can detect failed transfers, retry automatically, and alert teams before disruptions cascade downstream. Dashboards and logs provide real‑time insight into where data is moving and where it’s stuck, allowing leaders to respond proactively rather than reactively. In a crisis, that transparency translates directly into agility. Companies can reroute, prioritise, or throttle data flows with control and confidence. D igital Supply Chains Ultimately, supply chain resilience in 2026 is as much about digital infrastructure as it is about physical logistics. By embedding MFT into their operational fabric, organisations gain a hardened, auditable, and self‑healing data layer that keeps their supply chains synchronised - even when the world isn’t. Local Expertise Available Generic Systems Australia is Fortra’s #1 GoAnywhere MFT Partner in Australia and New Zealand, with decades of experience enabling organisations to build resilient supply chains and defend against cyber attacks. If you’d like a no-cost, no-obligation discussion about how you could simply and affordably adopt an advanced MFT solution, please feel welcome to get in touch with us. Previous Next

< News Sugar Attack Illustrates Supply Chain Exposure 16 June 2026 Last week’s cyber attack on Australia's second-largest sugar producer demonstrates how cyber exposures within a supply chain can flow on to disrupt other organisations within that supply chain. Sugar Shutdown Mackay Sugar operates three mills and generates annual revenue of more than $420 million, supplying raw sugar to domestic customers and export markets across Asia.  It reported yesterday that a cybersecurity incident had forced two of its three major sugar mills to shut down, bringing harvesting operations in the region to a halt.   Sugar milling and cane haulage operations at both the Farleigh and Racecourse mills have been suspended. Both facilities had only recently begun the annual sugarcane crushing season.   Growers reliant on the mills have needed to immediately cease harvesting sugarcane until the mills’ operations can be restored.  Canegrowers Mackay, the representative body for local sugarcane farmers, said in statement: "Mackay Sugar has asked for all harvesting to cease immediately and not resume until further communication comes directly from the company."    Supply Chain Susceptibility The sugar shutdown demonstrates the truth of the Australian Signals Directorate’s warning last month.  It cautioned that errors and vulnerabilities in an organisation’s supply chain posed a significant threat and were a leading cause of data breaches.   If supply chain partners rely on spreadsheets, email attachments, or bespoke scripts, even small mistakes - wrong file versions, incomplete data, mis‑formatted payloads, missed deadlines - can cascade into operational failures that expose your business.   A Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution reduces your exposure to supply chain vulnerabilities. Replacing inconsistent file‑exchange practices with a single, governed, and automated data‑movement framework, it provides standardised protocols, automatic validation and end‑to‑end visibility across every file transfer. Files are checked, encrypted, logged, and monitored in real time, ensuring that corrupted or non‑compliant data is caught before it enters your core systems.   Here to Help At Generic Systems Australia, we're a global leader in implementing the world's best MFT - Fortra's GoAnywhere. We've helped dozens of Australian and NZ organisations make their supply chains more robust. And we're right here in Australia, ready to put our expertise and experience to work for you.  Previous Next

< News Switch to a PROACTIVE MFT 15 Oct 2026 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. If your Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution is only reacting to breaches - instead of preventing them - then it’s high time to consider switching to a proactive MFT solution, such as GoAnywhere MFT . Six Reasons to Switch Traditional threat intelligence is reactive against cyberthreats rather than proactive. While Brute Force and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks can be detected automatically, that’s only after your systems have come under attack. A vulnerability discovered by a cybercriminal in one business system can be quickly replicated across other businesses’ systems in a wave of copycat attacks. Some attacks may only be detectable through (all-too-infrequent) manual inspection of activity logs. New and previously unknown vulnerabilities can lead to Zero Day incidents, if cyber security solutions don’t continually check for bad IP addresses. 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. Previous Next

< News Top 10 Tips for Advanced MFT Workflows 7 Feb 2024 Improve Business Processes with GoAnywhere’s Advanced Workflows One of the most advanced features of GoAnywhere MFT is also one of its most popular – Advanced Workflows. Workflows (also called “Projects”) expand and unlock superior automation for your file transfers. They enable you to enhance encryption, strengthen security capabilities, and run tasks seamlessly without human intervention. Those already using Advanced Workflows know how much time and effort this feature can save. It takes the drudgery out of moving data between applications, between employees, and within their supply chain ecosystem. Whether you’re in search of new tips and tricks, or just getting started with Advanced Workflows, this article will help you tap the potential of GoAnywhere MFT. 1. Create Projects with No Programming Skills You don’t need to be a technical genius or have any programming skills to create Advanced Workflows. GoAnywhere’s Project designer window couldn’t be any easier to use. It’s drag-and-drop interface puts over 100 unique tasks – copying, translating, moving, backing up, alerting, reporting, etc - at your fingertips. No clunky scripting is needed. 2. Configure Advanced Worksflows Resources Resources are an essential function and act as GoAnywhere’s “arms” or “client”. Configuring resources to network locations, email servers, and file transfer servers saves you time as you create your Advanced Workflows. Do it once, and you can use those resources in all your Projects. There are more than 20 different resource types for GoAnywhere to connect to, such as Amazon S3 Buckets, Azure Blob Storage, and SSH servers (SFTP, SCP, SSH). These pre-defined connections for internal servers, as well as external trading partners and locations, make it simple to build Projects which manipulate and move files. 3. Translate Data into Different Formats Advanced Workflows comes with 15 tasks for data translation. They enable you to read and write files in multiple different formats, and seamlessly translate between them. They include: Read/write CSV, Excel, Fixed-Width-XML, JSON Read flat file SQL query output to various formats Modify RowSet 4. Automate File Encryption/Decryption With cybercriminals increasingly targeting company data, most businesses believe it’s critical to encrypt data when its being transferred. GoAnywhere makes this as simple as it is important. With Advanced Workflows you can completely automate the process of encryption and decryption, for everything from documents to digital signatures and verifications. All of it is done with the robust Open PGP standard. 5. Create and Use Conditional Statements Conditional statements offer excellent control of Workflows within your Projects. Using common “if/else” logic and loops, they can parse through variables or lists of files. By chaining Advanced Workflows tasks together, they perform their tasks when the Workflow runs and prior conditions are “true.” 6. Reference Projects as a Common Function Projects you create can be called or referenced by multiple Projects. This enables commonly performed tasks to be utilised in multiple Projects in the manner of a common function or utility. 7. Run Workflows in Debug Mode Running Workflows in Debug Mode enables easy testing and troubleshooting of individual Projects. Users can interactively execute tasks one step at a time, and enable the job log and variable values to be monitored during each step. At each break in time, the values of the variables can be altered before the next task is executed. 8. Schedule and Automate GoAnywhere Reports Advanced Workflows can be used to schedule and automate reports. Reports can be generated and delivered, and email and text notifications sent. GoAnywhere’s built-in scheduler can be used to execute Workflows at future dates and times. Projects can be scheduled to run on a one-off basis, or with a recurring frequency. 9. Control Data Security with Triggers Triggers enable you to control the security of your data. They can automate Projects, send notifications based on user actions in GoAnywhere, and much more. Triggers can be defined to monitor for certain events such as an account being disabled, a download failing, or a successful login. A triggered event can initiate a response such as receiving an email when a file is uploaded by a trading partner or automatically removing a partial file from a folder if the file upload is unsuccessful. 10. Monitor Files for Determined Events Advanced Workflows can do file-based monitoring for certain events. These events include: Created Modified Deleted, and Exists. If you’d like to explore how your organisation can improve its efficiency through GoAnywhere ’s Advanced Workflows, feel free to contact our Business Manager, Bradley Copson (mail to: bradley@gensys.com.au ). He’s always happy to have an obligation-free discussion, explain how simply we can transition you from outdated software and approaches, and offer you a zero-cost Proof of Concept. Generic Systems Australia Your Local Experts in Secure Managed File Transfer Previous Next

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< News What Boards Need to KNOW and DO About the Latest AI Threats 11 Aug 2026 Advances in AI are making cyber attacks faster, more effective, and easier to execute. In partnership with the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Signals Directorate recommends the following key actions: Review how advances in frontier AI models could affect your organisation’s cyber security posture, including new AI-enabled cyber threats. Assess the risk of relying on AI providers, including cyber supply chain risks and concerns about foreign ownership, control and influence. Make sure your organisation is prepared to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from cyber security incidents in an agentic AI-driven threat environment. Strengthen cyber security by improving governance, processes, and capabilities to manage AI use within your organisation. What do boards need to know? Cyber threats are rapidly evolving due to the constant advances of “frontier” AI models. Frontier AI models are typically characterised by advanced reasoning, software development capabilities, natural language processing or multimodal capabilities, and are trained at scale using state-of-the-art techniques. Such AI models can perform complex tasks that exceed the capabilities of conventional automated tools. Frontier AI models have been widely available since early 2023 and continue to rapidly evolve. These AI models can: identify vulnerabilities and rapidly weaponise them; chain together multiple low severity vulnerabilities into high-impact compromises; and perform malicious cyber activities with little to no human oversight. Newer AI models are also dramatically increasing the speed, scale and ease at which vulnerabilities and weaknesses in systems and cyber supply chains can be identified and exploited, including by malicious actors that previously lacked the knowledge or skills to perform such activities. Combined with malicious actors exploiting weaknesses in proprietary AI model guardrails and illegally distilling such AI models, these developments enable broader access to advanced capabilities and amplify traditional attacker-defender asymmetries. This may rapidly invalidate organisations’ current risk tolerance. Overall, AI models are currently, and will continue to, fundamentally transform both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Boards should also be conscious that the implications of AI models extend beyond their effect on cyber security operations. For example, boards should consider cyber supply chain risks associated with their reliance on particular AI vendors and the foreign ownership, control or influence risks this may pose. These dynamics have clear implications for how boards should oversee proactive steps to enhance cyber security and resilience within their organisations. Organisations that fail to act now are exposing their organisations to greater business risk and losses. What threshold questions should boards ask? Boards should quiz management on the following: How vulnerable is our organisation to AI-enabled attacks? What assumptions underpin our current risk assessments, and how might AI threats invalidate those assumptions? Have we reviewed our risk tolerance in light of AI threats and is that risk tolerance still appropriate? If AI models were used to identify and exploit weaknesses across our organisation, what areas of our business would be most exposed? Where could minor weaknesses in our systems and cyber supply chain be combined into a major cyber security incident? Are there known weaknesses in our systems that could become materially more dangerous if identified and exploited at machine speed? Are we relying on vendors and service providers without sufficient governance and oversight, including an understanding of their foreign ownership, control or influence? Do we have visibility of the security and resilience posture of third and fourth-party suppliers within our cyber supply chain? Do we have control over our cyber security fundamentals, such as adherence with a recognised cyber security framework? What legacy technology risks are we carrying and do we have a plan to remediate these risks? Are we delaying addressing any weaknesses due to a perceived low exposure or severity? Would our cyber security operations remain effective if cyber attacks became more frequent, more targeted and more automated? Can we keep the business operational during a serious cyber security incident? If one of our critical systems was compromised, could we continue operating our most important services? If attacks moved from taking days to hours, could we still detect and respond to them effectively? Have our incident response and business continuity plans been updated and tested to capture AI threats? What should boards focus on? AI has the potential to significantly reduce vulnerability discovery and exploitation timelines from days to hours while significantly lowering the skill and knowledge barrier for malicious actors. Organisations should enhance their cyber security fundamentals now and boards should oversee and challenge management on how their organisations are implementing the following strategies. Immediate priorities Secure attack surfaces:  Systems are securely configured to approved and maintained baselines to reduce system exposure, including by reducing attack surfaces and attack paths, with configurations continually monitored and consistently enforced. Reduce software vulnerabilities:  Vulnerabilities in systems are identified, documented, validated and prioritised for remediation or mitigation in a timely manner, with all remediation and mitigation actions verified for effectiveness. Short-term priorities Replace legacy systems:  Systems that aren’t capable of meeting cyber security requirements are managed using compensating controls, along with enhanced monitoring and assurance activities, to maintain an acceptable level of residual risk until they can be decommissioned or replaced. Reinforce identity, credential and access management:  Robust and secure identity, credential and access management is used to establish, maintain and control access to systems and to support effective detection of identity and credential misuse. Restrict unnecessary privileges:  Personnel and services, including AI agents, are granted the minimum access to systems required to undertake their duties. Prepare for cyber security incidents:  Cyber security incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery plans for systems support continued business operations during cyber security incidents, and the resumption of normal business operations following cyber security incidents. Medium-term priorities Adopt AI for cyber defence purposes:  Artificial intelligence is used for cyber defence and is secure, controllable, human-supervised and used in an ethical and accountable manner. Longer-term priorities Modernise for the future:  Systems are planned, designed, developed, tested, deployed, maintained and decommissioned according to business criticality ratings and security and resilience requirements using Secure by Design and Secure by Default principles and practices. What practical actions can boards oversee? Boards are encouraged to engage with, and where appropriate challenge, management on their implementation as their organisation develops its response to AI threats. This should include regular reporting and assurance. Secure attack surfaces Define approved configuration baselines that disable or remove unnecessary services, insecure settings, and unsupported or weak communication protocols. Deploy approved configuration baselines on systems, including infrastructure, operating systems and applications. Detect and respond to configuration drift from approved configuration baselines through automation or continuous technical assessments. Reduce software vulnerabilities Identify known software and configuration weaknesses of assets through continuous and repeatable assessment activities, including vulnerability scanning activities. Apply security patches or updates within defined risk-based timeframes or, where operational impact is low, automatically. Remediate or mitigate vulnerabilities exceeding defined risk thresholds within defined risk-based timeframes based on their severity and exposure. Replace legacy systems Establish and maintain a process for identifying, assessing and managing the cyber security risk associated with legacy systems until they can be removed or replaced. Reinforce identity, credential and access management Identify and disable or remove default and unused accounts on a regular basis. Store authentication keys, secrets and tokens in approved secure repositories with access controls, including multi-factor authentication. Regularly scan codebases, configuration files, file shares and user collaboration platforms to identify unsecured keys, secrets and credentials. Use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for users authenticating to systems, including from untrusted, external or high-risk locations. Disable legacy authentication protocols that bypass or weaken modern authentication controls. Ensure that user, machine, system and service credentials are unique per system or account, particularly in high-privilege contexts. Restrict unnecessary privileges Periodically review and update access privileges in alignment with current roles, duties and business requirements. Restrict permissions to create, modify or delete accounts, roles or access to privileged functions or applications to authorised administrative roles. Provision user, administrative and non-person accounts with only the minimum access and privileges required to perform defined operational functions. Prepare for cyber security incidents Review cyber security incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure they remain fit for purpose. Regularly exercise cyber security incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Adopt AI for cyber defence purposes Deploy suitable AI models for augmenting software development activities, such as identifying and remediating vulnerabilities and weaknesses for software before its release and periodically throughout its life. Deploy suitable AI models for augmenting security assessment activities, such as performing vulnerability scanning and vulnerability assessments. Deploy suitable AI models for augmenting security monitoring activities, such as identifying and triaging cyber security events. Modernise for the future Design systems to provide visibility, enforce authorised access, protect data, minimise required and default privileges, limit exposed services, and remove unnecessary functionality. Secure build and deployment processes to enforce controls consistently across systems. How can MFT help mitigate the AI threat? Managed File Transfer (MFT) mitigates AI cyber risks by imposing strict governance over how sensitive data moves, shutting down the very leakage paths that AI‑enhanced attackers exploit. By centralising all file flows, MFT prevents shadow‑AI behaviours - such as staff feeding regulated data into external LLMs - through granular access controls, encryption, and content inspection that blocks sensitive prompts before they reach uncontrolled endpoints. While AI adversaries can discover vulnerabilities and weaponise exploits at machine speed, MFT counters this by enforcing hardened, vendor‑supported transfer channels, rapid patching, and continuous anomaly detection that flags abnormal transfer patterns and stops malicious exfiltration in real time. Critically, MFT maintains immutable audit trails for all AI‑related data flows, giving organisations forensic visibility and compliance evidence as AI models become autonomous actors in enterprise systems Here to Help At Generic Systems Australia , we are the nation’s most experienced and dedicated provider of the industry’s leading MFT solution, GoAnywhere . We’re right here and on hand locally to help your organisation protect itself against malicious AI incursions. As the ASD recommends: don’t leave yourself exposed to the risk from AI. Boards should press management to act now to ensure their organisation does not fall victim to current and emerging AI threats, including by supporting targeted investments to enhance cyber security and resilience. Acknowledgement: this article substantially reproduces (and expands upon) excellent advice provided by the ASD in partnership with the AICD. Previous Next

< News Battle Rising Input Costs with SW Solution Savings 30 Apr 2026 With input costs rising sharply, the last thing you may be thinking about is investing in new software solutions. However, what if a small investment in one particular solution could save you money and make your business more efficient … in its first year? Well, one can... A modern MFT platform eliminates some of the hidden costs that quietly drain your budget every day. Think about the hours your team loses waiting for large files to upload, retrying failed transfers, or hunting for ad‑hoc “free” tools that were never designed for business use. Those delays compound across departments, projects, and salaries. MFT removes that friction by automating transfers, accelerating throughput, and ensuring files arrive securely the first time. Then there’s the support burden. Every failed transfer becomes an IT ticket, and every manual workaround introduces risk. MFT centralises control, reduces troubleshooting time, and gives IT teams the visibility they need to prevent issues before they escalate. Finally, security. Free tools may look convenient, but they’re a magnet for breaches, compliance failures, and data‑handling mistakes. A professional MFT solution encrypts data end‑to‑end, enforces governance, and helps protect your organisation from costly cyber security incidents including ransomware. In a climate where every dollar counts, MFT isn’t an expense. It’s a fast, measurable return on investment – proven out by numerous customer testimonials and consultant studies - that strengthens productivity, security, and operational resilience. Previous Next

< News Automate Your Managed File Transfers 7 Oct 2026 The opportunity to automate file transfers is a key reason organisations are adopting Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions. Many organisations have a history of stitching together file‑transfer processes using scripts and cron jobs. That approach worked when data volumes were small and regulatory expectations were lighter, but it’s increasingly out of step with today’s operational demands. As a result, more organisations are moving toward Managed File Transfer (MFT) platforms to gain automation that is hands-off, dependable, governed, and fully auditable. Scripts Fall Short Automation now underpins modern integration. Businesses need workflows that run consistently without human intervention - whether pulling data from suppliers, distributing reports, or coordinating movement across hybrid environments. Script‑based setups simply aren’t built for this scale. They fail quietly, offer little visibility, and often rely on niche knowledge held by a single engineer. When that person leaves, the organisation is left with fragile processes no one fully understands. Eliminating Script Sprawl MFT platforms replace scattered, one‑off scripts with a central automation engine. Transfers can be triggered by schedules, events, APIs, or file‑system activity, all managed through a unified interface. Complex chains - such as decrypting, validating, transforming, routing, and notifying - can be assembled visually and monitored in real time. This shift from ad‑hoc scripting to structured automation is a major driver behind the accelerating adoption of MFT. Rising Security & Compliance Demands Growing regulatory pressure makes automation even more critical. Organisations must prove that data is encrypted, handled consistently, and tracked end‑to‑end. Automated workflows reduce human error, enforce policy, and generate the audit trails required in sectors like finance, healthcare, and government. In these environments, manual or script‑based processes are no longer sufficient. Automation Enables Scale As organisations add partners, expand digital services, or move workloads to the cloud, the number of file‑based integrations increases. MFT platforms allow teams to scale these workflows without rewriting code or reinventing processes. Tasks that once required days of manual setup can now be deployed in minutes. In essence, automation has evolved from a nice‑to‑have into a strategic necessity. As organisations modernise their integration ecosystems, MFT stands out as the most secure, reliable, and scalable way to manage critical data movement. Here to Help At Generic Systems Australia, we are Australia’s and New Zealand’s experts in MFT.  Our decades of experience and unparalleled expertise have made us Fortra’s Top MFT Partner for the world’s leading MFT solution, GoAnywhere MFT , in Oceania. If you’d like a no-cost, no-obligation discussion about how we could help you simply and affordably adopt an MFT solution, please feel welcome to get in touch with us . Previous Next