Agent
The Agent is a small and lightweight optional software component that is installed on your own server or client PC. Its main function is to provide secure file transfer of your payment files and reports to and from paygate.
paygate is a cloud based service for processing your payments. Many payments, especially bulk payments, originate in a file - usually created by a finance or accounting package. The question is then, how do you get those sensitive payment files to paygate in a manageable, efficient and secure way? One answer is to use Agent.
The Agent does the following:
- Encrypts sensitive payment files before they leave your LAN.
- Highly secure file transfer of files to and from paygate.
- File archiving.
- Provides a management interface to control which files are sent / received to and from paygate.
File-Level ‘At Rest’ Security
The Agent can optionally encrypt your sensitive payment files. Encryption takes place while the files are on your own LAN. This helps to protect your payment files while they are waiting to be sent to paygate, while they are in transit across the public Internet on their way to the cloud and also while they are waiting to be processed within paygate. Once encrypted, only a secure process within paygate is able to decrypt them.
Secure File Uploads
Agent can transfer files from your secure LAN to paygate in a highly secure way. The SFTP (SSH File Transfer) protocol is used to transfer files. SFTP is a tried and tested file transfer protocol used and trusted by banks and other financial institutions to transfer sensitive files across public networks.
Secure File Downloads
There are a number of times when you will want to download files from paygate:
- To download reports produced by paygate.
- To download a payment file that the service has created.
- To download a receipt or exceptions list.
