Ipswitch, Inc. Announces Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 With SSH

Published 22nd June 2007

Market Leader Offers Easy-To-Administer, Highly Secure and Fully Featured New Servers for Critical Secure Managed File Transfer Tasks...

Ipswitch, Inc., a leading developer of network monitoring, messaging and managed file transfer solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 and Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 with SSH. As the market is driven towards secure managed file transfer solutions, Ipswitch has enhanced and expanded WS_FTP Server to deliver industry-leading security, auditing, high-availability and remote administration capabilities, all of which are vital to organisations seeking to protect data, audit file transfers and automate file transfer processes.

"Keeping our customers' information and documents secure and compliant with all regulations is essential in our line of business," said Teleplan International Senior B2B Analyst, Rashpal Bains. "With the unrivalled advanced security and logging capabilities of Server 6 with SSH, we are able to keep track of all necessary documents and transfer critical business data easily and with assurance that no sensitive information will be compromised."

WS_FTP Server 6 delivers powerful enterprise-level security, granular administrative control over server access and user permissions, event-driven automation, robust logging capabilities for auditing and compliance, and best-in-class performance and reliability – all with an easy to use Web-based user interface. It scales to a virtually unlimited number of user accounts and concurrent user connections, and supports FTP, SSL and SSH protocol connections. Advanced features include strong password policies, guaranteed file integrity, clustering and load balancing architecture and more.

“Today’s organisations who are focused on file transfer and security are increasingly relying on SSH to move and share critical and sensitive data. Overall, the industry’s vision of what a secure file transfer solution needs to be is quickly moving towards Managed File Transfer (MFT),” said Gartner, Inc. Research Director, Frank Kenney.

WS_FTP Server 6 Key Features:

·Security: Industry-leading 256-bit AES encryption over SSH, SFTP, SSL and FTPS transfer protocols. Strong password policies include auto-expiring passwords, admin-set guidelines for creating strong passwords and rules for failed login attempts.

·Logging: WS_FTP Server 6 logs server administration and end-user activity for monitoring and auditing and keeps an ongoing record of server usage and captures all actions related to the storage and transfer of files.

·Availability: New clustering and load balancing architecture enables high-availability and high-performance through server redundancy and server failover.

·Control: Secure administrative control over access to files with granular permissions by folder, user and group.

·Automation: WS_FTP Server’s powerful rules-based notification engine can trigger email, SMS and pager alerts and kick off external programs based on specified server events and include real-time information in the notifications.

·Compliance: Some of the regulations that WS_FTP Server enables compliance with are Sarbnes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI DSS, BASEL II and J-SOX.

·Ease of Use: The new Web-based interface enables secure and fully-integrated FTP, SSH and SSL server administration from any Internet connection.

“Simply put, WS_FTP Server 6 offers industry leading security, integrity and availability for transferring files and is the smart choice for moving and sharing files within a company or around the globe. Users start seeing the benefits within minutes of installing, with faster file transfer performance, robust logging and advanced security that addresses compliance concerns,” said Ipswitch Vice President Of File Transfer Products, Kevin Gillis. “WS_FTP Server is a highly regarded leader that offers time-saving automation capabilities, industry-leading security, and best-in-class performance, scalability and reliability, delivered in a secure and flexible solution for the data management and file transfer needs of all kinds of organisations.”

Pricing and availability:
Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 is available from £368.57 with one-year service agreement and WS_FTP Server with SSH is available from £797.14 with service plan included. They can be purchased either via an authorised UK Ipswitch partner, a directory of which can be obtained from COMPUTERLINKS on 01638 569 745, or directly from Ipswitch’s web site at www.ipswitch.com.