Overcoming FTP Risks and Challenges with Managed File Transfer

Webinar Speakers

Maureen FlemingIDCProgram Vice President, Business Process Management and MiddlewareAt IDC, Ms. Fleming examines the products and processes used for building, integrating, and deploying applications within an extended enterprise system. With more than 20 years of industry and analyst experience, Ms. Fleming most recently came from Symantec, where her focus was on examining emerging security technologies aimed at protecting an enterprise's digital assets from outbound threats stemming from bad process and malicious employee behavior.

William McKinneyIBMProduct Marketing Lead, Managed File TransferMr. McKinney is responsible for all of the IBM Managed File Transfer products. He has covered the Managed File Transfer space for over seven years. With over twenty-five years in high technology companies, he has delivered results for firms like PeopleSoft, HP and Vignette. Mr. McKinney is a frequent speaker at trade shows and analyst conferences including COMDEX, Sapphire and Gartner. IT professionals value his ability to simplify technical content and highlight the relevancy to the business.

Webinar Host

Lori AngalichOxford Consulting GroupVice President of MarketingAs the marketing and strategy leader at Oxford Consulting Group, Lori offers a broad view of technology, market trends, issues facing companies today, and solutions available to address them. She has over 15 years of experience with B2B Technology solutions, and her background also includes work in CRM, social media technology, IP communications, and e-commerce technologies.

Understand, Quantify and Address the Risks and Shortcomings of FTP and Other Ad-Hoc File Transfer Processes

Featuring IDC Analyst Maureen Fleming and William McKinney of IBM

FTP turned 40 last year, and is still pervasive for exchanging bulk data within and between companies. It’s estimated that nearly a third of companies perform a majority of their file transfers using FTP.

While the perceived costs of FTP are minimal, FTP has seen and unseen costs associated with its inherent management challenges, security risks, compliance issues, and lack of automation. In fact, FTP has been blamed for many catastrophic business process failures—more than any other single piece of technology.

These challenges are forcing companies that use FTP to modernize their file transfer technologies and processes, which can prove costly and complex without the right strategy and technologies in place.
What are the options to upgrade, replace, consolidate and/or offload your at-risk FTP processes?Maureen Fleming of IDC and William McKinney of IBM will tackle these issues in the first webinar of our three-part Managed File Transfer webinar series. In this webinar, entitled “Overcoming FTP Risks and Challenges with Managed File Transfer,” they will provide valuable insights around FTP remediation, including:

What are the capabilities and business impact of managed file transfer solutions?
How do you quantify the value of remediating FTP risk?
What are the best practices for moving from FTP to managed file transfer?

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