SDS - Tectia Collaboration Encrypts, Secures, and Fully Governs File Transfer to and from z/OS Mainframes

For Release at SHARE, 7 August 2011

more info: SHARE booth 201, 763-571-9000, sales@sdsusa.com.

Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, USA - 7 August 2011 - Collaboration between Software Diversified Services and Tectia Corp. provides access control, data encryption, and complete monitoring of file transfer work for z/OS mainframe systems. Customers get those benefits without changes to job control (JCL) or scripts, to data files, or to existing application infrastructure.

The VitalSigns for FTP (VFTP) product from SDS, coupled with Tectia™ clients and servers, is a complete, cost-effective, and easily implemented security solution for all file transfer work in multi-platform environments.

VitalSigns for FTP provides monitoring, reporting, and security controls for file transfers by z/OS FTP, IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH, and Tectia™

With Tectia clients and servers, VFTP easily re-directs z/OS FTP transfers to secure SSH "tunnels." The VFTP-Tectia collaboration can also provide simple, transparent conversion of FTP to SFTP.

VFTP can immediately shutdown file transfers that exceed a specific size, and/or alert administrators to such transfers. The size threshold can even be scheduled to apply at some times (during the day for example) and not other times (at night, for example).

VFTP monitoring of all file transfers to and from z/OS provides powerful oversight and diagnostics, and a comprehensive audit trail to help ensure compliance with data-security requirements: HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, FISMA, and others.

VFTP further addresses FTP security shortcomings by integrating z/OS FTP servers with mainframe SAF security (RACF, ACF2, or TopSecret). Administrators can selectively allow or disallow any individual user and/or command.

VFTP automates file transfer work on z/OS by means of a robust FTP Control Language (FCL). For batch jobs that involve file transfers, FCL provides logging, retry of failed transfers, and automatic notification to operators when automated recovery fails.

Founded in 1982 and headquartered near Minneapolis, MN, SDS provides a wide range of z/OS software for network performance monitoring, data security and compression, and client-server applications. Its VitalSigns family of products provides monitoring, diagnosis, automation, and performance management for TCP/IP and SNA networks.

For more information, a free white paper, or a live demonstration by webcast, see www.sdsusa.com/vftp, call 800.443.6183, or write to sales@sdsusa.com.