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Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Gateway, also known as a Secure Proxy Gateway or Secure File Gateway helps keep your sensitive files out of the DMZ, while protecting the private network. It is one of the keys to helping you meet compliance requirements, including those for compliance or applicable privacy laws.
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Overview
Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Gateway provides an additional layer of security when exchanging business-critical or sensitive data with trading partners. It allows you to keep file sharing services (e.g. FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S servers) and documents safely in your private/internal network. With GoAnywhere Gateway, no inbound ports need to be opened into your private network, which is essential for compliance with PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, HITECH, SOX, GLBA and state privacy laws.
GoAnywhere Gateway helps keep file sharing secure by:
- Not allowing incoming ports to be opened into the private network, which reduces the risk of intrusion
- Not storing sensitive data files in the DMZ
- Keeping user credentials, certificates, and keys safely in the private network
- Supporting FTP/S, SFTP, SCP, HTTP/S and AS2 file transfer protocols
- Hiding the locations and identities of internal systems
- Not requiring any special hardware components; it is a software-only solution
GoAnywhere Gateway helps you:
- Keep inbound ports to your network closed
- Share files with trading partners, users, clients, and vendors without having critical documents or files stored, even temporarily, in your DMZ
- Make connections to external systems on behalf of users and applications in the private network as a forward proxy, allowing for easier management of file transfers from your firewall.
- Hide the identities and locations of your internal systems for better security
- Be flexible, as Gateway is a platform agnostic, software-only secure file gateway solution. Install it on Windows, Linux, AIX, UNIX, or other operating systems to enhance file security in whatever environment works best for you.
As an industry-leading, innovative MFT solution, GoAnywhere and GoAnywhere Gateway can help reduce costs, improve file transfer quality, and help organizations comply with data transfer standards and regulations.
Enjoy a free trial to see how GoAnywhere Gateway can help your file transfer process be more streamlined, secure, and error-free.
Highlights
- Incoming ports are not allowed to be opened into the private network
- No files are stored in the DMZ
- User credentials, certificates, and keys are kept safely in the private network
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- Log in to the EC2 where GoAnywhere Gateway is installed.
- Open a command line or terminal (as Administrator).
- Change the working directory to the directory where GoAnywhere Gateway is installed (C:\Program Files\Fortra\GoAnywhere Gateway).
- Run the command 'gagateway license' and follow the instructions displayed on the screen to request a license.
- Once your license is activated on the Customer Portal, download the license to your EC2 and copy the file to the GoAnywhere Gateway installation directory
- Restart Gateway through Services (GoAnywhereGateway)
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Customer reviews
Suppan J.
Very Flexible Project Reuse with Scheduler Overrides
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Very flexible, easy to reuse projects with scheduler overrides,
What do you dislike about the product?
no prebuilt verification of file properties in file movements, you need to code your own verifications of file size or related values.
occasional issues when running processes aren't able to send status updates to the database leaving scheduled jobs and monitors in a running status after completion, requiring our team to develop monitoring and resets via SQL (which GA handles fairly well)
occasional issues when running processes aren't able to send status updates to the database leaving scheduled jobs and monitors in a running status after completion, requiring our team to develop monitoring and resets via SQL (which GA handles fairly well)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company was running dos batch jobs with a WS-FTP command line processor. GA helps with monitoring processes, speeding our development cycles, and has built-in functions that replace several home built VB and C++ programs that inspect and revise data files. I't API abilities allowed us to intigrate our paging/ticketing system to set up error notifications.
Non-Profit Organization Management
GoAnywhere: Powerful Integrations for Seamless File Automation
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
GoAnywhere has integrations with many different solutions and offers an ability to move files exactly to where they are needed to be moved. Very helpful for automating back end processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are many different vulnerability updates that occur on this solution that make it a bit complex to maintain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving files from 1 system to another to kick off automation tasks
Emir P.
Stable, Reliable Performance That Runs Without Interruptions
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The solution is stable and continues to run reliably for long periods, without service interruptions or other issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn’t include an editor for editing the file.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It made secure, fast file sharing easy at an enterprise scale. In addition, GoDrive eliminated the long-term need to store critical data on NFS media.
Jon A.
Flexible, XML-Driven Automation Across SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about GoAnywhere MFT is the XML backend - it makes it a lot easier to understand and build out job logic compared to a pure GUI-only tool, since you can actually see and control the task flow directly. I also like how flexible it is across protocols, being able to handle SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB transfers all within the same platform makes it easy to standardize jobs even when the vendor or destination changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about GoAnywhere is that some of the built-in functions and attributes aren't well documented or don't behave the way you'd expect - things like CurrentDateTime() not actually existing, or sizeFilter being unreliable enough that you have to work around it with FileInfo() checks instead. It leads to a lot of trial and error that shouldn't be necessary. I also find the error handling setup to be a gap - just having a notifysysadmin module in the XML doesn't mean it actually fires, you have to explicitly wire it with onError on every task, and it's easy to miss that during job builds or reviews.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GoAnywhere MFT solves the problem of having a centralized, automated way to move files between us and all our vendors and partners without relying on manual transfers or one-off scripts scattered across servers. It benefits me by giving a single platform to build, monitor, and troubleshoot jobs across SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB, so when something fails I'm not chasing it down across different systems, I can go to one place and trace it through the job history and logs. It also makes onboarding new vendors more consistent, since I can reuse validated job templates instead of building transfer logic from scratch every time.
ABHINASH P.
Easy to Use and Highly Customizable
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of using it. The customization.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support from the vendor is not upto mark. Usually takes longer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scattered sftp systems in the bank integrated into GA. Various application integrations possible with GA.