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< News Top 5 MFT Trends in 2026 27 Jan 2026 With January’s holidays fading into memory and business getting back to work, it’s time to look ahead at what 2026 holds for data movement—the lifeblood of modern enterprises. As data volumes surge and digital ecosystems grow more complex, the systems responsible for secure file transfers are undergoing a major evolution. Organisations are exchanging more data than ever, and the demand for secure, compliant, automated file movement is rising just as quickly. Managed File Transfer (MFT) has long been the trusted foundation for these exchanges, but the landscape is shifting rapidly thanks to advances in AI, analytics, and cloud technologies. The era of basic point‑to‑point transfers is receding. Today’s MFT platforms must deliver intelligence, transparency, and the ability to scale across increasingly hybrid environments. Here are five major trends that will reshape MFT in 2026 and beyond. 1. Smarter Automation Through AI and Predictive Workflows Automation has always been a core strength of MFT, but AI is set to elevate it further. Organisations will use machine learning to predict issues before they occur, fine‑tune transfer schedules, and boost overall reliability. The file transfer logs and automated workflows generated by GoAnywhere MFT provide invaluable input to AI agents. By analysing this historical data, AI can recommend optimisations for bandwidth, security, and efficiency. 2. Real-Time Visibility and Advanced Reporting for Stronger Decisions In a world defined by big data, visibility is everything. Understanding how files move across an organisation—where they go, how fast they travel, and whether they meet compliance requirements—is essential. That’s why modern MFT platforms must offer real‑time monitoring, detailed reporting, and actionable insights. Dashboards and audit logs give IT teams a live view of transfer activity, helping them track throughput, capacity, SLA performance, and overall system health. This level of transparency is especially valuable for enterprises managing large volumes of sensitive data across multiple departments or global locations. Better visibility leads to better decisions and more efficient operations. 3. Centralised Security and Compliance Control With data privacy regulations tightening worldwide, organisations can no longer rely on a patchwork of tools for encryption, authentication, and data loss prevention. MFT platforms are increasingly becoming unified hubs for enforcing security and compliance. GoAnywhere MFT offers a single, web-based interface to automate, encrypt, and audit file transfers across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It replaces fragmented scripts and manual processes with a unified platform that secures data in transit and at rest—directly supporting compliance with PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, and other regulations. By consolidating these capabilities, organisations reduce compliance complexity and maintain consistent security across every file exchange. 4. Cloud-Ready Deployment and Hybrid Flexibility As organisations modernise their infrastructure, flexible deployment has become a top priority. MFT solutions now need to support on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments without compromising control or compliance. This shift toward cloud‑ready MFT reflects a broader trend: businesses want agility without sacrificing security. GoAnywhere MFT is a centralised, platform-agnostic solution that can be deployed across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It facilitates secure, automated data exchange between internal systems, trading partners, and popular cloud services (e.g. AWS S3, Azure Blob, SharePoint, Salesforce) using built-in Cloud Connectors and lightweight, centrally managed agents. 5. API-Driven Integration and Seamless Interoperability MFT is no longer just about moving files—it’s becoming a central connector between enterprise systems, cloud applications, and external partners. Modern platforms support robust REST APIs and standard protocols such as SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, and AS2, making it easier to integrate with ERP, CRM, SIEM, and other business systems. This interoperability reduces manual handling, improves data consistency, and streamlines automation across workflows. In an API‑centric world, MFT plays a crucial role in ensuring data flows securely and efficiently across the entire ecosystem. The Next Era of Intelligent File Transfer MFT has been a staple technology for years, but many legacy solutions are reaching end‑of‑life. The next generation of MFT is about more than secure transfers—it’s about enabling intelligent, data‑driven operations. Organisations embracing AI‑enhanced automation, real‑time analytics, compliance‑ready security, flexible deployment models, and API‑first integration will be best positioned to protect their data and stay ahead of operational challenges. The future of file transfer isn’t just secure. I’s smart, adaptive, and deeply connected to the broader digital landscape. Global Trends – Local Expertise At Generic Systems Australia , we’re Australia’s and New Zealand’s experts in helping organisations leverage the world’s leading Managed File Transfer solutions. If you’d like to discuss how we can help you, please feel welcome to get in touch with me . I’m always happy to have an obligation-free chat. Previous Next

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< News Cybercrime Incident Costs Triple for Australian Enterprises 21 Oct 2025 The latest Annual Cyber Threat Report from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) revealed that the average cost of a cybercrime incident to large Australian businesses has more than tripled year on year. This alarming surge reflects not just the growing sophistication of cybercriminals, but also the expanding attack surface of enterprise systems and the rising stakes of data breaches in an increasingly digitised economy. Why Average Costs are Skyrocketing Several converging factors explain the dramatic escalation in financial impact. High-Value Assets : Large businesses hold vast troves of sensitive data — customer records, intellectual property, financial systems. These are prime targets for ransomware and data exfiltration. Cybercriminals are increasingly tailoring attacks to exploit these assets, demanding higher ransoms and causing deeper operational disruption. Supply Chain Vulnerabilities: Enterprises often rely on complex ecosystems of vendors, partners, and third-party platforms. A breach in one node can cascade across the network, amplifying the damage and complicating response efforts. Regulatory Penalties and Legal Exposure: Stricter data protection laws mean that businesses can incur hefty fines and legal liabilities for a breach. The reputational fallout can also erode customer trust and shareholder value. Extended Downtime and Recovery Costs : Cyber incidents often cripple critical infrastructure, leading to prolonged outages, lost productivity, and expensive recovery operations. For large businesses, even a few hours of downtime can translate into millions in losses. According to the ACSC, the average cost per incident for large organisations has surged from to over AUD $202,000 in just one year. It’s a stark reminder that reactive security is no longer sufficient. MFT: A Strategic Shield One of the most overlooked yet powerful tools in the cybersecurity arsenal is Managed File Transfer (MFT). Unlike ad hoc file sharing methods such as email attachments, cloud drives, or FTP, MFT provides a secure, auditable, and policy-driven framework for exchanging sensitive data. Here’s how MFT — such as the class leading GoAnywhere MFT — helps businesses reduce cybercrime exposure. End-to-End Encryption : MFT platforms encrypt data both in transit and at rest, ensuring that even if intercepted, the contents remain unreadable to unauthorised persons. Access Control and Authentication : Granular permissions, multi-factor authentication, and role-based access prevent unauthorised users from accessing or manipulating files. Automated Workflows and Monitoring : MFT systems can automate file transfers with built-in logging and alerts, reducing human error and enabling rapid detection of anomalies. Compliance and Audit Trails : MFT solutions often include detailed audit logs and compliance reporting features, helping organisations meet regulatory requirements and demonstrate due diligence in the event of an incident. Reduced Shadow IT : By centralising file transfers within a secure platform, MFT reduces the risk of employees using unapproved tools that bypass corporate security controls. From Reactive to Resilient As cyber threats grow in scale and complexity, large businesses need to shift from reactive defence to proactive resilience. This makes investing in secure infrastructure like Managed File Transfer more than a mere technical upgrade. GoAnywhere enables further resilience by providing High Availability and Failover through active-active clustering, enabling multiple GoAnywhere installations to work together in a distributed environment.  This way, if one node fails or is compromised, other nodes seamlessly continue processing file transfers and workflows, minimising downtime and maintaining service continuity.  The tripling of cybercrime costs is a wake-up call. By securing the channels through which data flows, organisations can close critical gaps, reduce breach likelihood, and contain the “blast radius” when incidents occur. In a landscape where every file could be a vector and every transfer a risk, MFT offers the control, visibility, and security that modern enterprises need. Standing By to Help At Generic Systems Australia , we’re Australia and New Zealand’s experts in helping business take advantage of GoAnywhere’s many capabilities. We’ve assisted dozens of organisations to make their file transfers resilient, secure and reliable — boosting their efficiency in the process. If you’d like to discuss how we can deliver these advantages to your organisation, please feel welcome to get in touch with me. I’m always happy to have an obligation-free chat and explain how easily we can transition you from your current approach to a new world of cyber security and productivity. At Generic Systems Australia, we’re your local experts in data transfer. Previous Next

< News "Flip the Scripts" ... and Transfer Files Efficiently 20 Oct 2023 Replace Risky File Transfer Scripts with GoAnywhere MFT Once upon a time, writing scripts to partially-automate the transferring of files was “good enough”. However, technology has moved on. With cybersecurity threats multiplying and businesses focused on improving productivity, script-based file transfers just aren’t cutting it anymore. Why Replace File Transfer Scripts? Scripts aren’t secure . For example, user credentials aren’t encrypted, putting your entire system at risk. Scripts lack advanced features . For example, automating file transfers with FTP requires adding a second solution, a time-consuming and complex prospect. It’s also difficult to build in re-try features, and lock down how users interact with sensitive data. Scripts don’t play well with new tech . For example, modern cloud-based computing environments require file transfers to be integrated with cloud-based solutions, and platforms such as Azure and AWS. Scripts can be time consuming . Developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting scripts takes time, distracting valuable support staff from more important things. Worse, if they’re not available when a script fails, it bottlenecks your workflow. Scripts don’t have logging built in . All logging needs to be built into your scripts. Accessing those logs can be time consuming and difficult, requiring an effective filter and search tools. The Benefits of Replacing Homegrown Scripts As well as increasing the security of your file transfers, moving away from scripts provides your organisation with many other advantages: Centralise workflow . Instead of using multiple different tools, programs, and scripts to encrypt, send, and automate your file transfers, GoAnywhere MFT enables all of these from a single interface. That significantly streamlines day-to-day operations and reduces wasted tool maintenance time. Automate . No matter the volume of files to be transferred across your business and supply chain, GoAnywhere enables your team to spend time focusing on other things. Comply with regulations . By logging file transfers and access across your organisation, GoAnywhere MFT proves your compliance with legal requirements, such as data privacy and encryption. Those logs are also very handy if you’re conducting an audit, or forensics on an internal security breach. The Far Better Alternative GoAnywhere is the industry’s leading Managed File Transfer solution. It ensures data is transferred securely - both internally and externally – and accelerates your team’s productivity. If you’d like to learn more about how GoAnywhere MFT could add to your organisation’s bottom line, please feel free to contact me ( bradley@gensys.com.au ), or read more at the Generic Systems Australia website . Bradley Copson, Business Manager, Generic Systems Australia Previous Next

Advanced Threat Protection Take your secure file transfers to the next level. Seamlessly integrate your managed file transfers with advanced threat protection and adaptive data loss prevention to keep your sensitive data secure. The SFT Threat Protection bundle enables you to collaborate safely without malware entering your organisation, and without your employees losing or mishandling data. What Does Advanced Threat Protection Do? Sharing information incurs risks… There’s the risk of opening your systems to threats, such as malware or even threats hidden within file transfers. There’s the risk of exposing the wrong content, whether sent by mistake or hidden in metadata. Advanced Threat Protection enables you to inspect managed file transfer content for threats as well as leakage. Seamless integration between Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT and the Clearswift Secure ICAP Gateway features: Anti-virus and malware protection Deep content inspection Adaptive data loss prevention Media type protection 3 Ways to Enhance File Transfer Security Prevent Files with Malware from being Shared. Simply check a box in GoAnywhere to turn on easy anti-virus protection through the Secure ICAP Gateway to scan all inbound file transfers. Detect and automatically strip out active content like embedded malware, triggered executables, scripts, or macros used to extract or hold sensitive data hostage. Advanced Threat Protection sanitises — without delay in delivery — as only the malicious active content is removed, allowing the file transfer to continue unhindered. This morph-free protection guards against today's leading malware and ransomware (i.e. CryptoLocker, CryptoWall, TorrentLocker, Dridex Dyre, BlackEnergy, etc.) and tomorrow's even more sophisticated threat variants. Block Sensitive Data from Being Shared. Prevent files with Personal Identifiable Information (PII) or other sensitive data from being transferred. GoAnywhere Threat Protection can inspect file contents, then stop and block files from being shared, based on policy. Redact Sensitive Information from Files Before Transfer. Ensure sensitive data is not transmitted or received. Detect or remove geotags, document properties, email addresses, or other metadata from documents, replacing sensitive text with asterisks. Detect and remove text contained in scanned images with Optical Character Recognition. Detect and remove offending content with text redaction. Encryption Isn’t Enough Encrypting sensitive file transfers is vital for ensuring the privacy and integrity of your data and complying with data governance regulations. However, while encryption can protect your files, you can do more to ensure your messaging security, by staying aware of what is being transmitted. Adding threat protection to GoAnywhere enables you to empower some senior individuals the power to transmit PII, while excluding others. Further, even if your transmission process is secure, you may want to audit who is sending what. The Secure ICAP Gateway enhances your encryption by limiting both who can transfer data, and what that data contains. Two Leading Solutions, Seamlessly Integrated The Clearswift Secure ICAP Gateway adds significant value to GoAnywhere MFT because of its threat protection, deep content inspection engine, adaptive data redaction, and flexible policy settings, while managed file transfer makes defining file movements a breeze. Additional features you can add to your file transfer process are structural sanitisation, document sanitisation, data redaction, anti-steganography, and optical character recognition. It’s the best and most thorough security for file transfers. Other Ways Clearswift Can Help You Integrating Clearswift’s core ICAP Gateway and threat protection with SFT can resolve gaps in your process and provide additional benefits. It can audit and control data in file transfers, for example, detecting when customer, employee, or patient records in a file are uploaded to SFT, counting the records, and maintaining an audit log of what data was shared with whom. When you add Clearswift solutions to your SFT instance, you get Lexical Expression Qualifiers, which can detect records based on multi-field matches, and trigger different actions based on number of records detected (e.g., audit, refer to sender, redact, block). Clearswift can also ensure you accept only the correct file types, by enforcing "True Type" controls which ensure you don't receive binaries, executables, scripts, or other unwanted file types. Clearswift solutions defend your system based on file byte pattern rather than by name. And, it works with nested files over 50 levels deep!

< News How MFT Monitors and Protects Your Organisation’s Vulnerable Edge Devices 11 Mar 2025 The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has urged Australian organisations to ensure they employ effective logging and monitoring to detect potential threats on network edge devices. Edge Devices Edge devices are critical network components positioned at the periphery of an organisation’s internal network (i.e. "the edge"). They’re the critical interface between the organisation and the internet, performing essential functions such as managing data traffic, enforcing security policies and enabling seamless communication across network boundaries. The most common edge devices across enterprise networks include enterprise routers, firewalls and VPN concentrators. Every organisation with a connection to the internet has at least one edge device. Edge Vulnerability Because edge devices they can access other assets on the organisation’s network, they’re an appealing target for cyber criminals. Failing to secure them is like leaving a door open from the internet to internal networks. Once inside, hackers can access sensitive data and disrupt business operations. As they perform their important task in the background, it can be easy to overlook the security vulnerabilities that edge devices present. And the more edge devices an organisation uses, the greater the potential “threat surface”, and the greater challenge for IT staff to keep them secure. Compromised edge devices can lead to data loss, intellectual property loss, financial loss, business disruption, reputational damage and legal liabilities. Maintaining The Edge The ASD says that, to protect their edge devices, organisations should focus on: • capturing high-quality logs • centralising logging in real time, and • securing event log storage. Automated Logs, Auditing and Reporting Managed File Transfer (MFT) technology has a key role to play in monitoring data transfers, both within an organisation and to the outside world. Leading MFT solutions such as GoAnywhere MFT automatically compile comprehensive audit reports of file transfer activity. All file transfer activity is securely stored and easily searched. Reports and alerts can be automatically emailed to cyber security staff, who can instantly check files are only being sent where they should go, and by people appropriately authorised to send and receive them. Further, any organisations required to report on file transfer activity can use GoAnywhere’s logs to comply with their industry’s cyber regulations. Heeding the ASD’s Advice At Generic Systems Australia, we have decades of experience helping Australian and New Zealand organisations take advantage of the security and efficiency that MFT provides. And our Migration Service makes the transition even easier for busy businesses who’d rather spend their time focusing on their customers than their IT systems. If you’d like a no-cost, no-obligation discussion about how we could help you simply and affordably adopt an advanced MFT solution, please feel welcome to get in touch . Previous Next

Annual Upgrade & Health Check Service Take the time, effort and risk out of ensuring your GoAnywhere environment is up to date and running smoothly! Our Annual Upgrade and Health Check Service provides dedicated resources to update your organisation’s GoAnywhere environment to the latest version. One of our experienced local Technical Consultants will review your organisation’s upgrade strategy, conduct a Health Check of your system and consult with you on any risks and compatibility issues potentially associated with your upgrade. What’s Included: Pre-Upgrade System Evaluation: Prior to upgrade, our local specialist will conduct an evaluation of your existing environment to identify issues and configurations that require special attention before upgrading. Preparation Meeting: a local GoAnywhere expert will present the findings and verify the scope of the upgrade. Upgrade: Our local GoAnywhere expert will assist with the upgrade of your environment, staying on hand to address any issues that may arise during the upgrade process. Rollback: In the unlikely event you encounter an unforeseen production issue, we will provide up to two hours of services to mitigate the issue. If the issue cannot be resolved, we will guide you through the rollback process and restore GoAnywhere to the previous working state. Health Check: We’ll evaluate the security configurations, performance logs, and overall health of your system. Our local GoAnywhere experts will check the number of licenses, workspaces, and job logs, and assist with optimising them. They’ll also advise you of opportunities to further leverage your investment in GoAnywhere to improve your organisation’s efficiency and security. Our Annual Upgrade and Health Check Service delivers the most up to date release of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT and best practices. Download the Product Datasheet below for comprehensive details, and then Contact Us to schedule your Upgrade and Health Check! Download the Product Datasheet

< 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

GoAnywhere MFT GoAnywhere MFT is the award-winning cybersecurity solution which helps more than 3,000 organisations safely connect to their trading partners, automate their IT processes, and protect their data. This brief video overviews its key features and benefits. RESOURCES HOME