Evolution of Managed File Transfer in Business to Business

Abstract

In an era of digital world, data have became import part of our life. Every single day a tons of data are being exchanged over the internet. As of 2020, everyday 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are being produced and exchanged over internet. A2A, B2B, C2G and G2C rely on huge data exchange. Traditional transfer protocols like FTP, HTTP are not sufficient as they do not comply with security standards and hence a managed centralized system is necessary that not only can exchange data as traditional transfer protocols do but also can perform several other tasks like sending an SMS, sending an email, record activity so that data can be made available for analysis purpose and provide security requirement for authentication for example DFA and MFA. To fulfil the demand of modern world a managed system was created and the system is named as Managed File Transfer. This article describes evolution of MFT and importance of MFT in IoT, B2B and C2G.