2026 buyer’s ranking puts Axway first among nine MFT vendors
Original title: Top 9 Best Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Editorial scores, not lab tests, rank Axway, IBM Sterling and Progress MOVEit on a podium weighted 30% to security posture.
A Cyber Security News ranking scores nine managed file transfer vendors after treating Fortra’s GoAnywhere and Globalscape as one vendor. Axway leads at 8.9, IBM Sterling at 8.7 and Progress MOVEit at 8.4. The piece cites 2023 mass exploitation of MOVEit and GoAnywhere and a 2024 Cleo episode as reasons buyers should demand patch history and deployment architecture in writing.
Unconfirmed: Scores are the outlet’s editorial judgments, not independent lab measurements.
- Weights are security posture 30%, automation 25%, protocol breadth 20%, scale 15% and pricing 10%.
- Fortra is ranked fourth at 8.3 for GoAnywhere and Globalscape EFT together.
- Cleo, SEEBURGER, Kiteworks, Redwood JSCAPE and Coviant Diplomat follow at 8.2 to 7.6.
- The text says scores are editorial and not lab results.
- MOVEit buyers are told internet-exposure discipline remains mandatory.
From the original article
8 min read at cybersecuritynews.com
No category has been breached more publicly this decade than managed file transfer mass-exploitation campaigns against MFT products turned quiet integration plumbing into board-level risk, and the 2023–2024 waves rewrote the buying criteria. In 2026 you evaluate an MFT vendor’s security engineering exposure architecture, patch velocity, hardening posture before its scheduler. Our sheet listed ten […]
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