Transmission Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Top 20
Aug 29, 2025
I have not worked with compliance functionality on the EFT end or specifically with Globalscape EFT, as there is not much functionality related to this, or perhaps I have not explored it fully. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Globalscape EFT a 7.
Software Developer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Aug 11, 2025
I work with Globalscape EFT, and I'm an MFT developer with plenty of experience, with 15 years working on Globalscape EFT and MFT products in .NET. I assess the effectiveness of Globalscape EFT's security protocols such as SSL, TLS, and PGP encryption by noting that we have options to select HTTPS, SFTP, or FTP within the tool itself. It also has libraries that we can opt for to define which protocols are allowed and which are not allowed for the user. As we upgrade to the latest version, it is already inbuilt with the latest, higher security. With automation, the advanced workflow allows us to automate everything, such as scheduling. If I want a task to run at a particular time, I can do scheduling. If I want something such as file upload events, where users can act at any time, I can set up automation at the very beginning, ensuring there is no manual intervention. I rate Globalscape EFT a seven out of ten.
It excels in compliance and reporting. It adheres to standards like HIPAA, ensuring the secure transfer of sensitive patient and financial data. The platform also supports encryption and decryption, enhancing data security. This robust compliance makes it a reliable choice for handling critical information. We need to ensure that the scheduling does not overlap. Suppose we have a hundred tasks running from 2 AM to 7 PM MST, with each task running every hour. Instead of using a generic scheduler, we need to modify the scheduler to ensure that most tasks are not running simultaneously. This precaution is necessary to avoid overloading the system and potentially causing it to go down. If someone is using old MFT tools like TIBCO, Fortra's Globalscape is a good upgrade option. However, Fortra also offers GoAnywhere, which is a highly recommended tool, even more so than Globalscape. It is also a strong contender, but recent cybersecurity attacks have made clients less comfortable with MOVEIt. Besides MOVEIt, there are other tools, although IBM tools tend to be expensive, including licenses, leading to a shift away from Sterling Integrator. Besides Globalscape, GoAnywhere is a great option. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
The solution is easy to use and configure. Scalability or lag time can be improved across thousands of jobs to ensure the solution is available 24/7 at a moment's notice. If you want EDI separate from MFT, then the solution is the best choice and I rate it a nine out of ten.
File Transfer Operations Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jul 18, 2022
The way we secure sensitive data in Globalscape MFT is through Active Directory's RBAC, its role-based access control. But in part, we do it through Globalscape too, because we have supervisory accounts where internal people can access the data through SFTP accounts that go through Globalscape. Overall, it is a good solution. Just make sure that it matches your auditing requirements.
Systems Administrator at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 14, 2021
It's not that important that it's designed for Windows because we work with different systems. But it is nice that it is designed for Windows because it's easier to manage than using the command line or relying on different versions of Linux. Windows is a more standardized platform and we know it will operate in a certain fashion. With other OSs, it would be a lot more expensive or a lot more challenging. With Linux, there are so many variants out there that it's impossible to say they're all standard. It might work perfectly on one but not work on another one. Having Globalscape on Windows is great because it's used everywhere and easily manageable. It's a good pairing. If it weren't for Globalscape's automations, it would be a lot more difficult to use. It has been a blessing to have those features available to us to make our jobs a lot easier.
Looking at the product and being trained on it, I find Globalscape to be a great file transmission application. I have been here only for two years, and we've upgraded the application only one time. A lot of the security has been improved, but the general functionality is pretty much the same. In our company, we have different types of operating systems. We have Linux, and we have Windows. We don't seem to have Macs here. The majority of our application servers are on Windows, so it is very important for us that Globalscape is designed specifically for Windows, but we do have some application servers that are on Linux. It provides advanced controls, alerting, and reporting for security and compliance to a certain extent. Reporting is more in terms of when files are getting sent back and forth, and it could be better. In Event Rules in Globalscape, you can set conditional statements for encryptions not working and other things for security and compliance. It hasn't enabled us to reassign resources who were writing custom file transfer scripts or compiling file transfer audit reports to other tasks because that's not applicable to what we do. We don't have anybody creating custom scripts outside of what we do in Globalscape. I would rate it an eight out of 10.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 20, 2021
It is a solid product. The price point is excellent. I don't know if it's a negative now, but you have to be sure that you know that it only runs on Windows. For some people, it's a negative, and for some people, it's not. To me, it's not. It can secure sensitive data inside your internal network so that only verified users have access, but we don't use that feature. We have other internal tools that secure the data. We also don't use Globalscape to automate the submission of regulatory documentation. It allows us to automate scripts, but I don't use it. That's still a work in progress, but for the few that I do have, we use the AWE module. I'm working to integrate PowerShell now. They have simplified executing PowerShell in version 8. So, I should have everything up to version 8 by the middle of next year. It connects to popular ICAP services to perform antivirus and data loss prevention functions, but we don't use that feature. It enabled us to reassign resources who were writing custom file transfer scripts or compiling file transfer audit reports to other tasks many years ago, but in my current organization, it has not done that because it was designed as part of the critical core feature of our data center. Similarly, it has not enabled us to decommission other solutions. The data center was built with Globalscape chosen. Before that, it was just changing from one vendor to Globalscape for economic reasons. I'm going to give it an eight out of 10 because of the 32-bit engine.
I would definitely recommend this solution. Being in the middleware space, I work on several other technologies within our group. Oracle has an MFT, and Amazon is also planning to have the managed file transfer, but I recommend Globalscape. It is in the top quadrant from Gartner's Quadrant perspective, and they have recently acquired a lot of small companies in different areas. They are okay in terms of the product roadmap. We don't use Globalscape to automate the submission of regulatory documentation, but there are connections to FDA and CFDA. We use this as a transport tool but not as a submission tool. We do have the FDA and email connections. The automation of file transfers has reduced the workload but it depends on multiple factors. It also depends on the bandwidth part. There are a lot of features, but when we are transferring across our client base, it can be a little bit slow. It is based on the type of protocol. They have some modules, but we haven't yet used those UDP-based transfers. Its connection to popular ICAP servers helps inspect content for sensitive information, such as credit cards, and it has some advanced security modules, but we never used them. It automatically does advanced checksum and several other redundancy checks. As a solution, I would rate it a nine out of 10. There are a few areas they need to improve on. They recently came up with the cloud option and different deployment options, but we haven't used those yet. We need to use those options.
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I have not worked with compliance functionality on the EFT end or specifically with Globalscape EFT, as there is not much functionality related to this, or perhaps I have not explored it fully. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Globalscape EFT a 7.
I work with Globalscape EFT, and I'm an MFT developer with plenty of experience, with 15 years working on Globalscape EFT and MFT products in .NET. I assess the effectiveness of Globalscape EFT's security protocols such as SSL, TLS, and PGP encryption by noting that we have options to select HTTPS, SFTP, or FTP within the tool itself. It also has libraries that we can opt for to define which protocols are allowed and which are not allowed for the user. As we upgrade to the latest version, it is already inbuilt with the latest, higher security. With automation, the advanced workflow allows us to automate everything, such as scheduling. If I want a task to run at a particular time, I can do scheduling. If I want something such as file upload events, where users can act at any time, I can set up automation at the very beginning, ensuring there is no manual intervention. I rate Globalscape EFT a seven out of ten.
It excels in compliance and reporting. It adheres to standards like HIPAA, ensuring the secure transfer of sensitive patient and financial data. The platform also supports encryption and decryption, enhancing data security. This robust compliance makes it a reliable choice for handling critical information. We need to ensure that the scheduling does not overlap. Suppose we have a hundred tasks running from 2 AM to 7 PM MST, with each task running every hour. Instead of using a generic scheduler, we need to modify the scheduler to ensure that most tasks are not running simultaneously. This precaution is necessary to avoid overloading the system and potentially causing it to go down. If someone is using old MFT tools like TIBCO, Fortra's Globalscape is a good upgrade option. However, Fortra also offers GoAnywhere, which is a highly recommended tool, even more so than Globalscape. It is also a strong contender, but recent cybersecurity attacks have made clients less comfortable with MOVEIt. Besides MOVEIt, there are other tools, although IBM tools tend to be expensive, including licenses, leading to a shift away from Sterling Integrator. Besides Globalscape, GoAnywhere is a great option. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.
The solution is easy to use and configure. Scalability or lag time can be improved across thousands of jobs to ensure the solution is available 24/7 at a moment's notice. If you want EDI separate from MFT, then the solution is the best choice and I rate it a nine out of ten.
The way we secure sensitive data in Globalscape MFT is through Active Directory's RBAC, its role-based access control. But in part, we do it through Globalscape too, because we have supervisory accounts where internal people can access the data through SFTP accounts that go through Globalscape. Overall, it is a good solution. Just make sure that it matches your auditing requirements.
It's not that important that it's designed for Windows because we work with different systems. But it is nice that it is designed for Windows because it's easier to manage than using the command line or relying on different versions of Linux. Windows is a more standardized platform and we know it will operate in a certain fashion. With other OSs, it would be a lot more expensive or a lot more challenging. With Linux, there are so many variants out there that it's impossible to say they're all standard. It might work perfectly on one but not work on another one. Having Globalscape on Windows is great because it's used everywhere and easily manageable. It's a good pairing. If it weren't for Globalscape's automations, it would be a lot more difficult to use. It has been a blessing to have those features available to us to make our jobs a lot easier.
Looking at the product and being trained on it, I find Globalscape to be a great file transmission application. I have been here only for two years, and we've upgraded the application only one time. A lot of the security has been improved, but the general functionality is pretty much the same. In our company, we have different types of operating systems. We have Linux, and we have Windows. We don't seem to have Macs here. The majority of our application servers are on Windows, so it is very important for us that Globalscape is designed specifically for Windows, but we do have some application servers that are on Linux. It provides advanced controls, alerting, and reporting for security and compliance to a certain extent. Reporting is more in terms of when files are getting sent back and forth, and it could be better. In Event Rules in Globalscape, you can set conditional statements for encryptions not working and other things for security and compliance. It hasn't enabled us to reassign resources who were writing custom file transfer scripts or compiling file transfer audit reports to other tasks because that's not applicable to what we do. We don't have anybody creating custom scripts outside of what we do in Globalscape. I would rate it an eight out of 10.
It is a solid product. The price point is excellent. I don't know if it's a negative now, but you have to be sure that you know that it only runs on Windows. For some people, it's a negative, and for some people, it's not. To me, it's not. It can secure sensitive data inside your internal network so that only verified users have access, but we don't use that feature. We have other internal tools that secure the data. We also don't use Globalscape to automate the submission of regulatory documentation. It allows us to automate scripts, but I don't use it. That's still a work in progress, but for the few that I do have, we use the AWE module. I'm working to integrate PowerShell now. They have simplified executing PowerShell in version 8. So, I should have everything up to version 8 by the middle of next year. It connects to popular ICAP services to perform antivirus and data loss prevention functions, but we don't use that feature. It enabled us to reassign resources who were writing custom file transfer scripts or compiling file transfer audit reports to other tasks many years ago, but in my current organization, it has not done that because it was designed as part of the critical core feature of our data center. Similarly, it has not enabled us to decommission other solutions. The data center was built with Globalscape chosen. Before that, it was just changing from one vendor to Globalscape for economic reasons. I'm going to give it an eight out of 10 because of the 32-bit engine.
I would definitely recommend this solution. Being in the middleware space, I work on several other technologies within our group. Oracle has an MFT, and Amazon is also planning to have the managed file transfer, but I recommend Globalscape. It is in the top quadrant from Gartner's Quadrant perspective, and they have recently acquired a lot of small companies in different areas. They are okay in terms of the product roadmap. We don't use Globalscape to automate the submission of regulatory documentation, but there are connections to FDA and CFDA. We use this as a transport tool but not as a submission tool. We do have the FDA and email connections. The automation of file transfers has reduced the workload but it depends on multiple factors. It also depends on the bandwidth part. There are a lot of features, but when we are transferring across our client base, it can be a little bit slow. It is based on the type of protocol. They have some modules, but we haven't yet used those UDP-based transfers. Its connection to popular ICAP servers helps inspect content for sensitive information, such as credit cards, and it has some advanced security modules, but we never used them. It automatically does advanced checksum and several other redundancy checks. As a solution, I would rate it a nine out of 10. There are a few areas they need to improve on. They recently came up with the cloud option and different deployment options, but we haven't used those yet. We need to use those options.