Case Study: Scientific American achieves secure, verifiable global file transfers with Progress (Ipswitch) WS_FTP Server

Scientific American Uses WS_FTP® to Address File Transfer and Large Email Attachment Issues

Scientific American, a predominantly Macintosh-based publisher with more than 1,000,000 copies in circulation and multiple international editions, needed a faster, secure way to deliver very large monthly content files (400–500 MB) to overseas teams. The IT team required strong security, file integrity and detailed visibility and reporting (who accessed or downloaded what and when), capabilities they did not find adequate in their initial Microsoft evaluation.

They implemented Ipswitch WS_FTP Server (with 256-bit AES over SSL/SSH and SHA-512 integrity checking), plus Ipswitch Notification Server for automated alerts and later IMail and WhatsUp for email and infrastructure monitoring. As a result, international editions now download content directly instead of receiving CDs/DVDs, transfers are faster and verifiable, server logs and alerts make access problems easy to diagnose, and the suite proved reliable and easy to maintain with quick, low-disruption updates.

Scientific American

Roger Hirschkind

IT Director