As IT and OT environments become increasingly connected, organizations need better control over how data moves between operational systems, business applications, and third parties. Yet many file transfers still rely on legacy processes, unmanaged scripts, manual handoffs, and insecure transfer methods that create unnecessary risk.
GoAnywhere MFT helps organizations secure, govern, and automate data movement across IT, OT, and external environments, without requiring costly rip-and-replace projects.
Risk Often Lives at the OT Boundary. Most organizations focus on securing systems. But risk often emerges where data crosses between IT, OT, and external environments.
Common Challenges
Legacy Systems
Critical OT systems often can't be easily replaced, upgraded, or patched.
Manual Transfers & USBs
Removable media and manual file movement create visibility, security, and compliance concerns.
Scripts & Homegrown Process
Custom automation introduces operational risk and dependency on institutional knowledge.
Third-Party Access:
Contractors, suppliers, cloud platforms, and partners expand the attack surface.
Why GoAnywhere?
GoAnywhere offers a user-friendly, robust way to secure and modernize data movement across IT and OT. Organizations can:
- Reduce Cyber Risk by centralizing and securing file transfers with encryption, audit logging, authentication controls, and policy-based governance.
- Modernize without replacing OT systems
- Improve security and visibility while preserving existing operational infrastructure.
- Replace scripts with automation to reduce manual effort, eliminate fragile processes, and improve reliability with workflow automation.
- Strengthen compliance and governance by gaining centralized visibility into transfers, users, policies, and audit activity.
- Secure third-party connectivity by controlling how data is exchanged with vendors, contractors, suppliers, and partners.
- Reduce the attack surface by supporting secure IT/OT architectures that maintain separation between trusted and untrusted environments.
Featured Resources
Learn more about securing IT/OT data movement:
Guide: Securing the OT Perimeter: Rethinking File Transfer as a Critical Security Control
What this guide covers
- Why risk concentrates at the OT perimeter, not inside the systems themselves
- Where data movement breaks down across IT, OT, and external connections
- How unmanaged transfers introduce exposure in otherwise controlled environments
- The role of secure, governed file transfer in reducing operational and security risk
Get a clear, experience-driven framework to assess how your organization secures data movement without disrupting critical systems and whether your current approach prevents issues or simply works around them.
Readiness Assessment: Is Your Environment Built to Scale Securely Across IT and OT?
As IT and OT environments become increasingly connected, the way data moves between systems has become a critical security concern. Organizations often rely on legacy transfer methods, scripts, and manual processes that create risk and limit visibility. This quick-guide explores how GoAnywhere MFT helps secure, automate, and govern data movement across IT, OT, and third-party environments without disrupting operations.
Learn how to reduce risk, improve visibility, and modernize IT/OT data exchange.
Article: Why Secure Data Exchange Is the New IT/OT Control Point
As IT and OT systems become increasingly connected, organizations need new ways to manage risk without disrupting operations.
Learn why secure, governed data exchange is emerging as a critical control layer at the IT/OT boundary.
Customer Outcomes with GoAnywhere MFT
Security-First Architecture
Encryption, policy enforcement, audit trails, and role-based access controls built into a single platform.
Encryption, policy enforcement, audit trails, and role-based access controls built into a single platform.
Designed for Legacy Environments
Improve governance and security without disrupting critical OT systems.
Improve governance and security without disrupting critical OT systems.
Centralized Visibility & Governance
Manage transfers, workflows, users, partners, and policies from one location.
Manage transfers, workflows, users, partners, and policies from one location.
Secure Gateway Architecture
Protect internal systems and support segmented IT/OT environments with secure communication channels.
Protect internal systems and support segmented IT/OT environments with secure communication channels.
Protect the OT Perimeter with Secure, Governed Data Movement
Reduce cyber risk, automate critical processes, strengthen governance, and securely connect IT, OT, and third-party environments with GoAnywhere MFT.