A malicious “denial-of-service” or “man-in-the-middle” attack can cause terrible damage to your company reputation and brand image, and erode the trust of your customers. We’ve found in our experience that internal networks and legacy systems are often vulnerable due to insufficient file transfer security measures.
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy is an application proxy that protects your internal network from malicious attacks that may negatively impact your business and interrupt business processes, both internally, and with external trading partners.
While file transfer over the Internet is cheap, it can also be highly insecure. IBM Sterling Secure Proxy enables you to leverage the cost benefits of using the Internet for file transfer while ensuring the security of your file transfer infrastructure by ensuring your firewall is secure.
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy provides a demilitarized zone to prevent direct connections to your systems, and employs session breaks to ensure that external nodes do not have a direct connection to your company node when connecting to a Sterling Connect:Direct node outside your secure environment, so your systems remain safe.
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy’s self-service authentication customization for trading partners ensures that your business can operate more efficiently without being reliant on your IT staff.