Cyber-Ark > Inter-Business Vault® v5.0
Cyber-Ark's Inter-Business Vault® (IBV) is the leading Secure Managed File Transfer solution in the market. It enables organizations to securely and efficiently exchange sensitive information with their business partners, customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
- Secure all your sensitive data that needs to be exchanged with 3rd parties, at rest as well as in transit.
- Easily provision new 3rd parties and set up a secure channel with minimal or no IT involvement.
- Centralize the management of all incoming and outgoing sensitive information. Assure that access control is properly assigned, and fully audited.
The File-Transfer Management Challenge
There is a growing demand for file transfers with 3rd parties (such as customers, partners, subcontractors, etc.) that are not part of the enterprise. Exchanging information with these 3rd parties is becoming necessary and vital to any e-Business communication strategy. As organizations understand the need to open up for communication with 3rd parties, they realize they need to cope with significant challenges:
- How to centralize management and provide complete visibility of all file-transfer activity, regardless of the protocol being used and the type of transfer? With so many transport protocols, such as FTP, FTP/S, SMTP, HTTP, HTTP/S, SSH, etc. - and with varying file-transfer types, such as internal, external, manual, automated, or ad-hoc, organizations need to centrally manage access control to servers who provide such services. Additionally they must be able to monitor and audit access to information that is sent to 3rd parties. Moreover, they need centralized full visibility of all file-transfer activity, making sure that business processes are not interrupted.
- How to provide secure connectivity to 3rd parties while minimizing IT overhead for each new connection? Today, organizations understand that traditional solutions such as Secure FTP or other home grown solutions are not viable. Organizations that have implemented such solutions find them complex and hard to maintain.
IT departments are responsible for providing "on-demand" communication across business units and departments. In order to accommodate an organization's request for secure connectivity to 3rd parties, such connectivity needs to be enabled quickly and efficiently (with minimal or no IT involvement at all). - How to address file-transfer and connectivity security threats? Managed File Transfer for sensitive information needs extra care and attention as well as a different management approach to ensure the greatest levels of secure connectivity. When sensitive information is compromised, the implications for the organization can be catastrophic - it can damage the organization's reputation as well as affect individual parties. The exchanged data must remain confidential, tamper-proof, and access should be allowed only to authorized parties, excluding IT and system managers.
Features
Management and Administration:
- Centralized management for all transfer types and protocols
- E-mail notifications and alerts
- Extensive reporting capabilities
- Tracking of delivery receipts
- 3rd party provisioning
- Enhanced scheduling capabilities
Reliability and Scalability
- Guaranteed file delivery
- Recovery of failed transmissions
- High Availability, Disaster Recovery
- Multi-gigabyte file-size support
- All transferred files are automatically
- compressed and encrypted
- File Integrity verification
Connectivity
- Easily integrated with back-end systems
- Wide variety of user and automation interfaces for global accessibility
- Transparent support for multiple protocols including FTP, FTP/S, CIFS, HTTP/S
- Firewall-friendly protocol
- Ad-hoc workspaces and workgroups
Security and Compliance
- Protection of data at rest and in transit
- Totally transparent encryption keys management - zero administration
- Wide range of strong authentication mechanisms
- Seamless Content Filtering and Anti- Virus integration
- Tamper-proof audit records
The Solution
Cyber-Ark's Inter-Business Vault® (IBV) provides a secure Managed File Transfer solution enabling organizations to manage exchange of business information.
Built on its patented Vaulting® Technology, IBV is the leading Governed File Transfer solution in the market. Enterprises worldwide drive their critical processes across business communities by utilizing IBV for exchanging financial transactions, manufacturing designs, drug-trial data, legal documents and other sensitive information. IBV is unique in providing a single platform supporting all methods of business file-transfer including automated, adhoc and collaborative processes, resulting in a centralized and fully governed file transfer solution.
Banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, as well as telco, pharmaceutical and government institutions world-wide, use IBV to exchange sensitive information with 3rd parties on a daily basis. Additionally, IBV assures business continuity, because files will be delivered to their destination on time, and in a highly secure manner.
IBV provides enterprises worldwide with the following benefits:
- Centralized management and support for all types of file transfers, whether internal, external, automated manual or ad-hoc - centralize access control, file-transfer management, monitoring and full file-transfer activity visibility, regardless of the protocol being used, or the file transfer type.
- Enablement, support and improvement of business processes and SLAs - Scalable to support your business growth, IBV streamlines your business processes utilizing highperformance, highly secure file transfer. IBV assures the delivery of files to their destinations and provides 24x7 worldwide accessibility.
- Reducing risk of disclosing sensitive information - Based on the patented Digital Vault® security platform, IBV provides the highest levels of security, and ensures confidentiality and authenticity of the sensitive information. IBV maintains strict security policies and tamper-proof audit logs, and protects data from unauthorized personnel including IT and administrators.
- Providing easy integration with the enterprise infrastructure and legacy systems - With our industry leading performance, scalability and robustness, IBV integrates with an existing infrastructure easily, and scales up to support your current and future business needs.
- Reducing operational costs and simplifying relationships and communication across the business community - minimizing IT overhead, IBV eliminates the need to maintain scripts and monitor cumbersome file-transfer processes based on FTP and other home-grown solutions. Moreover, IBV provides an easy way to enable 3rd party connectivity with minimal or no IT involvement.
With IBV, you will:
- Lower operational costs by managing and operating file transfer processes
- Enable business processes to happen faster, more efficiently and in a more reliable manner, improving overall SLAs
- Reduce business risk of disclosing sensitive information
Governed File Transfer that Drives Your Business
IBV is an enterprise wide solution based on the patented Vaulting® Technology security platform, and can be used for:
- Replacing FTP and homegrown file-transfer processes which are unsecured and suffer from high total cost of ownership.
- Allowing the automation of file-transfer operations that are currently operated manually using CDs, Couriers, USB flash drives, which are expensive, unreliable, time consuming and prone to errors.
- Providing "ad-hoc" solutions enabling business users to send large files to 3rd parties, overcoming the email infrastructure challenges of handling large attachments.
- Enabling secure file sharing with 3rd parties, providing highly secure 24x7 global access to sensitive documents such as HR, Legal,
Management, Marketing, Finance and Board of Directors.
IBV's unique offering is:
- Comprehensive - A single centralized solution supporting all types of file-transfer processes, providing automation, ad-hoc, manual and collaborative information exchange, across industry standard protocols over the Internet.
- Easy to administer - A unique solution for mapping business processes into governed file-transfer services, resulting in secure, reliable and auditable information exchange.
- Agile - Enables business users to enroll trading partners and establish business processes with 3rd parties without the need for IT involvement.
- Highly secure - Based on its patented Vaulting® Technology security platform, IBV is unique by offering an out-of-the-box highly secure file-transfer solution. With IBV, security is inseparable from the process.
