Free Whitepaper: The Need for a Better Way to Send File Attachments

Osterman Research on Secure File Transfer Technologies

Osterman Research secure file transfer whitepaper The popularity and pervasiveness of email has created a very serious problem for organizations of all sizes: email was originally designed to send short, text-based messages. While that is still its basic purpose, email has also become the primary data and file transport system for most enterprises.

As the sophistication and size of the attachments carried in email have grown, the number of problems for IT administrators and users alike have also grown. For example, large attachments sent through email can dramatically reduce the performance of messaging servers and can cause them to crash in some cases... and large attachments also drive up costs of storage and can require expensive upgrades to network bandwidth.

Read this free report from Proofpoint and Osterman Research to understand:

The reasons why email file attachments are no longer the preferred method to send files

The differences between various file transfer solutions

The industry trend toward appliance-based secure file transfer

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About Proofpoint Secure File Transfer

Proofpoint Secure File Transfer™ adds secure, easy-to-use, managed file transfer capabilities to an organization’s Proofpoint deployment. It lets end users send large files quickly and easily while removing the impact of large attachments on your email infrastructure. Proofpoint Secure File Transfer enables increased user productivity and better management of email attachments.

Proofpoint Secure File Transfer enables increased user productivity, cost-effective management of email infrastructure and better management of email attachments. The module offers enhanced security and compliance benefits versus sending files as email attachments, while eliminating frustrations with alternative file transfer methods such as secure FTP.