Introduction to EFT Arcus

EFT Arcus is a secure, full-featured, and enterprise-class cloud file transfer service. Whether you need to transfer files among employees, vendors, customers, or business partners, this secure cloud file transfer platform offers a centralized solution for all of your data movement activities.

The cloud has become synonymous with agility, empowering organizations to operate and respond to growing business demands faster and more efficiently. EFT Arcus is a SaaS solution for organizations that are looking for the agility, elasticity, and cost savings the cloud provides. Reduce the complexity of your file transfer infrastructure, increase operational efficiency, and protect your most important data using our secure managed file transfer cloud service.

With EFT Arcus, you get all of the benefits of a secure managed file transfer solution with the flexibility and affordability of the cloud. Reliable and scalable, this secure cloud file transfer platform is an elastic solution that can grow with your business. Because it can be quickly and easily deployed, EFT Arcus allows you to nimbly respond to your changing infrastructure needs. Save the time and resources that would normally be spent managing an on-premises system, and reallocate them toward your business objectives.

NOTE: EFT Arcus customers do not have server access due to the nature of cloud applications. Globalscape Customer Support can access any server features that you may need to change. You can also refer to the EFT (on premises) online help if you have questions about server settings.

Available Modules (licenses required)

  • Advanced Authentication Modes Module (AAMM) - The Advanced Authentication Modes Module protects data in transit by enforcing the use of secure protocols, strong ciphers and encryption keys, and maintaining strict password policies, and enables organizations to centralize their user access controls, improve productivity, and increase adherence to security policies, and provides administrators with the ability to easily maintain password security in one location to quickly commission and decommission user provisions in one central location. The module also provides SAML (WebSSO)support, which allows EFT Arcus to fit in seamlessly with existing authentication measures.

  • Advanced Workflow Module (AWM) - Adds additional automation capabilities, allowing you to add scripting and variables to Workflow Tasks, then add these reusable Workflows to Event Rules. A Workflow is a series of steps that can perform file transfers, batch data processing, application testing, and so on, and are defined to run automatically when started by some event.

  • AS2 Protocol Module (AS2) - Supports the exchange of structured business data securely on top of the HTTP or HTTP/S protocol.

  • Auditing and Reporting Module (ARM) - Captures all of the transactions passing through EFT Arcus. You can query the data and create/view reports from within the EFT administration interface.

  • Cloud Connector Module (CCM) - Enables you to transfer files to/from cloud services such as AWS and Azure.

  • Enterprise Actions Module (EAM) - Enables automation features (event rules) such as executing scripts, performing folder and file operations, compressing and decompressing files, and so on.

  • File Transfer Client (FTC) - Enables you to define copy, move, and download actions in Event Rules. For example, you could define a rule to trigger when a file is downloaded, so that EFT Arcus moves it to another folder.

  • Folder Monitor Module (FMM) - Creates an Event Rule trigger used to detect the creation, deletion, and renaming of files in a monitored folder and to perform Actions based on these triggers. For example, perhaps a weekly report is uploaded to a specific folder. You can define an Event Rule so that when EFT detects that a file has been added to the folder, an email is sent to notify one or more users that the report is available for download. In v8.0.7 and later, this module is no longer part of core EFT Arcus and requires a license to use the Upload/Download/Synchronize actions in event rules.

  • FTPS module - Allows you to use FTP over SSL/TLS to for more secure transfers. (Plain FTP is included.)

  • HTTPS module - Allows you to set up a secure connection to anyone in minutes using any Web browser. The HTTPS module adds the HTTP and HTTPS protocols to EFT Arcus, enabling you to support browser-based transfers without having to install a Web server. HTTPS encrypts the session data using the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol, which provides protection from eavesdroppers and man-in-the-middle attacks. The Web Transfer Client (WTC) can deploy automatically upon client connection to EFT Arcus and can be used by any trading partner using virtually any Web browser.

  • OpenPGP module (PGP) - Safeguards data at rest. The OpenPGP data encryption or decryption process is directed by Event Rules that specify how data files are treated in a particular context. EFT Arcus uses OpenPGP to encrypt uploaded data and the off-load capabilities of EFT Arcus to move the file to another location. (industry-standard, RFC 4880 compliant)  

  • Regulatory Compliance Module (RCM) - Supports PCI DSS, GDPR, and other compliance-related features to achieve or exceed security practices mandated by government and industry standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley for data transfer, access, and storage

  • Remote Agent module (RAM) - Provides centralized control for automating transactions from distributed systems. RAM enables automatic interactions between branch offices, point-of-sale terminals, business partners, field agent laptops, or other remote systems and your EFT Arcus (over HTTPS port 443) residing in a central location.

  • SFTP Module - Subset of the popular SSH protocol and is a platform independent, secure transfer protocol. SFTP provides a single connection port for easy firewall navigation, password and public key authentication, and strong data encryption, to prevent login, data, and session information from being intercepted and/or modified in transit. The SFTP module enables EFT to authenticate and transfer data securely with SFTP-ready FTP clients, such as CuteFTP®.

  • Timer Event Module (TEM) - Allows you to execute a specified Action only one time or repeatedly at specified intervals. For example, you could schedule an Action (for example, generate and send a report) to occur on July 8 at midnight, or every Monday morning, or on the last Friday of every month at 2 a.m.

  • Workspaces - Allows you to share folders and their files with internal and external users.

All features are "a la carte" meaning you must license them separately. For more information about tiers, features, and bundles, refer to the EFT Arcus datasheet. To license and enable the features you need, contact Globalscape Support.

EFT Arcus administrators are not server-level administrators. To edit server-level settings, please contact Globalscape Support.

Refer to Features Available in EFT Arcus to see which features are available in EFT Arcus, which EFT on-premises features are not available in EFT Arcus, and a list of EFT Arcus constraints.