Client-Server Solutions Features

In addition to the industry-leading individual features of our WS_FTP Server with SSH and WS_FTP Professional products, using our client and server products together provides several distinct and optimized benefits, including:

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End-To-End Security

• Login Authentication Encryption – Ensure that all credentials for every client-server connection are secured and never sent unprotected.
• Strongest Transfer Encryption – 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standards (AES) transfer encryption over SSL / FTPS and SSH / SFTP protocols.
• File Integrity – Guarantee the integrity and non-repudiation of transferred files and data with file integrity algorithms including CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 technologies.
• OpenPGP File Encryption – Encrypt individual files with fully integrated public-key/private-key file encryption that supports AES and 3DES ciphers, key strengths from 1,024 to 4,096 bits, and RSA and Diffie-Hellman key types with expirable keys.
• Digital Certificate Management – Implement and manage secure and encrypted server access by quickly adding, creating, and importing certificates and running them through a company’s existing trusted-authorities database.
• Enforce Secure Client-Server Connections – Ability for administrators to force SSL or SSH connections, define minimum encryption levels, and specify connection requirements, such as TLS 1.0 or higher.
• Strong Password Policies – Include auto-expiring passwords and guidelines for strong password creation that require users to reset their password at any time on an ongoing basis.

Control and Compliance

• NEW! Storage Utilization Displayed to Connecting WS_FTP Professional Clients – Users connecting to WS_FTP Server with the soon-to-be-released WS_FTP Professional 2007.1 file transfer client get a real-time view of their server disk space utilization.
• Client-Server Logging – Capture client-server connections and activities related to the storage and transfer of files with the ability to filter, sort, and export logs for customized reporting.
• Administration Logging – Keep an auditable record of server administrator actions, control the level of detail that gets logged, and filter, sort, and export logs for customized reporting.
• Syslog Support – Integrate WS_FTP logs with a company database or central data repository.
• Web Administration – Remote server administration and management from any Internet connection.
• Separation of Duties – Create host administrators who can only manage specified hosts.
• Real-time View of Client Connections – View client and server connections with ability to drop users and create and manage black lists for blocking IPs.
• End-User Records – End users can keep records of their WS_FTP usage with Transfer Manager, Transfer History, and Connection Log.

Standardization and Flexible Licensing

• Virtualization: Central Management and Deployment – Citrix® and Microsoft® terminal servers software management enables administrators to manage and rapidly deploy WS_FTP Professional on multiple computers right from a central server.
• NEW! Silent Install – Customize installation configuration and quickly get multiple server deployments with unattended bulk installations up and running remotely.
• Flexible Licensing – Client licenses are sold in packs of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 licenses via our website. Server licenses are sold individually or in 2-packs via our web site. For larger deployments, call us at 781 676-5700 or fill out this form and an Ipswitch Licensing Specialist will respond to your inquiry.

High Availability

• Architecture for Clustering – Utilize existing High Availability infrastructure to group multiple servers for redundancy, and overcome scheduled and unscheduled server downtime.
• Architecture for Load Balancing – Utilize existing High Availability infrastructure to distribute workload among multiple servers for improved performance.
• Download WS_FTP Server Clustering and Load Balancing Solutions Guide

Customization and Integration

• NEW! Choice of Databases – Use the embedded WS_FTP Server database or integrate with an existing Microsoft® SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server Express for both user authentication and server system configuration.
• NEW! Choice of Web Servers – Use the default standards-based Web server that ships with WS_FTP Server or integrate with Microsoft IIS for powering the Web administration interface.
• Syslog Support – Integrate WS_FTP logs with a company database or central logging repository.
• Flexible User Authentication – Leverage existing user databases, including Active Directory, NT, Ipswitch IMail, or any ODBC compliant database. Active Directory integration enables robust filtering so that only appropriate users are able to authenticate.