Managed File Transfer for the Construction Industry - How to Send Confidential Files Securely

Jan. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Build a Better File Transfer System, One Step at a Time.
With secure transfers, information that needs to be passed on to various sites could be completed without the need for couriers and postage, USBs, CDs and DVDs – businesses could build centralised systems to sell or rent their properties and many other functions that could be intergraded depending on what you build or develop.

Secure Contracts
In many cases, the transfer of data between clients and designers is difficult to achieve securely, without giving clients their own logins on sites.  While this can show workflow and data integrity, including who has accessed the file, these systems are also prone to errors.  Emailing designs by mail requires large amounts of bandwidth in some cases and can create more headaches if the server receiving the files struggles with large attachments, not to mention the problems with virus certification and spam filtering.  

MFT solves these by integrating your file system with your email system, allowing your clients to have secure, managed access that relies on protocols more secure than FTP.  These protocols are often ubiquitous and overlooked when discussing security – most people just don’t think about their file security until a breach or loss has occurred.


Moving Before Loss or Data Breach
It’s essential to secure your system, and become PCI compliant as soon as possible – in all cases PCI compliance is necessary and will give you the opportunity to give your clients and staff a secure environment to interact in, and will ensure that you can bid for and meet the criteria for contracts outside of your normal sphere of bidding and will allow your company to move forward without costly and time consuming upgrades.  

Taking the appropriate steps before necessary will also give you and your team the chance to integrate the systems in question with your needs, allowing you the freedom and security to expand on your customer base without needing to place additional strain on your infrastructure.  

PCI compliance in relation to your payment processing is often an essential element of your business banking criteria and should be taken seriously at all times – without compliance it’s difficult to guarantee security – and while MFT supports the ability to gain vital elements of security when dealing with both paperwork and file processing – from the easy areas of providing secure invoices to your clients to submitting paperwork in a timely and appropriately encoded manner.  

MFT can help you with all of the needs of your industry that other file systems cannot.

HANDD Business Solutions are independent specialists providing Secure Managed File Transfer and Data Security solutions to a wide range of organisations operating across all industry sectors. HANDD provide file transfer solutions from leading MFT software vendors including Messageway, IPWSITCH File Transfer, GlobalSCAPE and BOOLE Server. For further information about secure managed file transfer and data exchanges please visit www.handd.co.uk or call HANDD Business Solutions on +44 (0) 845 643 4063.

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