CDSA

As business-to-business (B2B) data transfers continue to grow, ransomware continues to grow at the same time, according to Russ Boyer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) principal product solution architect for AWS Transfer Family.

To reduce the risk of infiltration, extortion and data loss, organizations are modernizing their file transfer strategy, he pointed out Aug. 16, during the webinar “Antivirus for Managed File Transfers.”

During the webinar, he and Ed Casmer, founder and CTO of Cloud Storage Security, discussed how to leverage fully managed file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, FTP and AS2 protocols and scanning file exchange workloads as part of the cloud-based data transfer process.

The AWS Transfer Family “securely scales your recurring business-to-business file transfers to AWS Storage services using” those four protocols. It also “securely scales your recurring business-to-business file transfers to AWS Storage services using” the same protocols.

Those who watched the webinar were able to learn how to: securely move their file exchange workloads to AWS storage, manage file transfers from one place, easily scan files for ransomware and other malicious code, and ensure only clean data is allowed for use – all without impacting end users or application integrations.

“Storage is such a critical piece to the cloud environment these days,” Casmer told viewers at the start of the webinar. “And storage in the realm of managed file transfers is also a critical piece,” he said.

He predicted: “If we look at some of the analyst information out there, there’s over $2 billion of spend coming over the next few years in managed file transfer alone. Still over 50 percent of system-to -system transfers happen at the file level.”

But he said: “if you don’t have that control, then it can get a little loose. When you look at why cloud storage security is partnering with AWS and the Transfer Family team to deliver a secure file transfer process, it’s because we’re out in the industry doing this today in the cloud storage space with all of our customers.”

Boyer then noted: “We have hundreds of customers and billions of files scanned. And across that base, right now, over half of our customers have found malicious content in their cloud storage. And this doesn’t matter where the storage comes from. But it’s just a big revealer of why it’s important to create this and put this together.”

Part of the reason AWS decided to have this webinar is because “we’ve just announced and released our transfer family integration,” Boyer told viewers. “This is a marketplace deployment [and] very simple to do,” he said.

“If you look at our history,  we started in 2020 right at the beginning of the pandemic, so that was a fun time,” he said.  “But if you look over all these milestones that have happened in the last three, three and a half years, we’ve really leaned into this relationship and we’re really keen on protecting the cloud storage that exists inside of AWS.”