Files.com vs. Progress MOVEit

Modern File Orchestration — Not A Windows App You Patch On Azure

Files.com is the cloud-native alternative to Progress MOVEit. 4,000+ companies run their file transfer on Files.com instead, including Equifax, Cognizant, Michelin, TowneBank, and Banner Health.

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MOVEit Is Built On Technology From 2002

MOVEit launched in 2002. It runs on Windows servers: Windows Server, IIS, .NET, and SQL Server. You install it, you patch it, you keep it running. The product was sold to Ipswitch in 2008 and to Progress in 2019, and the underlying technology hasn’t fundamentally changed.

“MOVEit Cloud” is the same Windows software, just running on Azure servers Progress operates instead of servers you operate. It’s the same code with a different host.

To do what Files.com does, you have to buy three separate Progress products: MOVEit Transfer for the protocol surface, MOVEit Automation for workflows, and ShareFile for human-to-human sharing. Three contracts, three license keys, three things to keep updated.

Files.com is one product, built for the cloud from day one. SFTP, FTPS, FTP, WebDAV, Automations, Inboxes, Share Links, the on-premise Agent, AS2, PGP, custom domain, and the REST API, all in one. We run it. You log in and use it.

A global cosmetics company replaced Progress MOVEit ahead of a data-center closure without pausing shipping, moving workflow by workflow while live Latin American carrier exchanges kept running.

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In 2023, The MOVEit Breach Exposed Data On More Than 90 Million People

In May 2023, a ransomware gang called Cl0p found a security hole in MOVEit. Before Progress (MOVEit’s owner) could tell customers about it, the gang had already broken into more than 2,700 organizations and stolen data on more than 90 million people. The fallout: 240+ class-action lawsuits, consolidated into a single federal case.

A year later, another security hole was found. The day Progress announced it, working attack code was already circulating publicly. Every MOVEit customer had to drop everything and patch their servers, again.

The reason both breaches happened: every MOVEit customer runs the same Windows software on their own servers. When attackers find a way in, they have a list of thousands of targets to hit — all running the same product, all exposed at the same moment.

Files.com has operated for 15+ years without a single breach. Our platform doesn’t expose a per-customer server for attackers to find.

What MOVEit Customers Say

Reviewer, Financial Services

After the security incident, we paused new deployments and our procurement team required additional security review. The upgrade process now requires more coordination than it used to.

IT Manager, Healthcare

Upgrades are painful. They typically require a maintenance window and we engage professional services for major version changes because there's risk to in-flight transfers.

Reviewer, Mid-Market Enterprise

The cost is on the higher side compared to competitors offering similar functionality. The licensing for MOVEit Automation as a separate product adds to total cost.

Reviewer, Professional Services

The user interface looks dated and is not particularly intuitive for our business users who need to upload files. Our IT team handles most interactions because end users find it confusing.

Where Files.com Wins

One Product Unifies System-To-System And Human-To-Human Workflows

SFTP, Automations, Inboxes, Share Links, Online Editor, the Agent, AS2, REST API, in one license. MOVEit needs three separate products to match it.

Cloud-Native, Not Windows-On-Azure

Nothing to license, patch, or babysit on your side: no Windows Server, no IIS, no .NET 4.8, no SQL Server.

15+ Years Of Operation, Zero Breaches

MOVEit: two critical security holes in 13 months.

Published Pricing Transparency

Files.com publishes its prices. Progress doesn’t publish MOVEit pricing: every quote goes through sales, split across Transfer, Automation, and Cloud.

White-Glove Migration, Run By Us

Files.com’s US-based Customer Engineering team runs the migration end-to-end. User accounts, SFTP credentials, scheduled workflows, AS2 certificates, and SSO configuration all move with our team doing the work, with as much onboarding as your migration requires and no professional-services line items billed back to you.

#1 Across Every G2 Rating For Managed File Transfer

Those ratings come from the IT teams of 4,000+ organizations running the platform in production across 15+ years.

Customers Who Replaced MOVEit

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One Platform To Replace Your Whole File Stack

Every capability legacy MFT licenses as a module, plus the ones it never had — on one platform, with published pricing.

Cloud SFTP, FTP & MFT Server

Dedicated, fully managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP endpoints, with every protocol your partners already use. No servers to patch and no DMZ to maintain.Replaces IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, AWS Transfer Family

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File Sharing & Collaboration

Branded portals, secure share links, and request inboxes, plus co-editing for Office documents. Partners and customers get access with no account and nothing to install.Replaces Box, Dropbox, ShareFile, Egnyte

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Fast File Transfer & Acceleration

Move files up to 5 TB at full speed over any distance, with chunked, resumable transfers on standard protocols and custom UDP acceleration in the Agent.Replaces IBM Aspera, Signiant

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Automation & Workflows

Trigger on a file arriving, a schedule, or an event, then route, convert, and notify, with retries and alerts built in. The reliable replacement for the scripts and cron jobs nobody wants to own.Replaces fragile custom scripts and cron jobs

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Data Transformation & Format Conversion

Reshape files inline as they move: convert formats and pull fields out of EDI, HL7, XML, JSON, and CSV, so downstream systems get exactly what they expect.Replaces hand-built parsing and conversion scripts

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Desktop Drive & File Server Replacement

Native apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android mount your cloud storage as a local drive, so you can retire aging file servers and NAS without changing how people work.Replaces NetApp, Nasuni, aging NAS, Windows file servers

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Every capability runs on one platform — SOC 2 Type II certified, HIPAA BAA available, with a complete audit trail on every action.

Security And Compliance, Built In

Files.com has run for 15+ years with zero breaches. The controls your auditors ask about are standard here, not add-ons.

SOC 2 Type II

Independently audited, every year.

FedRAMP Certified

Certified under FedRAMP 20x at Class A, with Class B in progress.

HIPAA & GDPR

BAA and DPA available, with EU and regional data residency.

Encrypted End To End

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in transit.

SSO, SCIM & MFA

SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, MFA, and granular role-based access.

Complete Audit Trail

Every action logged immutably and streamed to your SIEM.

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Every Support Request Reaches A Senior Engineer

No Level 1 runaround, no script, no callback queue. When something breaks, you reach a seasoned file transfer expert who can actually fix it.

All-Engineer Support Desk

Talk to file transfer experts who understand how you work.

Replies in under an hour
Talk straight to engineers
We watch for problems
We own the escalation

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Onboarding Services

A dedicated Customer Engineer and a step-by-step plan — most teams are live within five business days.

Migration planning
Help on go-live day
Workflow tuning
Training for your team

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Resources & Training

Clear documentation, training materials, and how-to guides.

API documentation
Video tutorials
How-to guides
Yearly in-person customer events

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“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”

Tommy Chapley

Senior Software Engineer, Equifax

“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”

Regis Litre

Chief Information Officer, Rag & Bone

“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”

Nelson Miranda

Sr. Systems Engineer, Spirit Airlines

Files.com Vs. MOVEit FAQ

What buyers ask most when comparing Files.com to MOVEit.

Files.com will not be undersold: if you have a MOVEit quote in hand, bring it to Contact Sales. Files.com publishes its prices. Progress doesn’t publish MOVEit pricing: every quote goes through sales, split across Transfer, Automation, and Cloud.

MOVEit Cloud is the same Windows Server / .NET / IIS / SQL Server software as the on-prem version, running on Azure VMs dedicated to you. Progress didn’t rebuild it for the cloud. They just moved it to their own servers. Files.com was built for the cloud from day one and we run it for you: no Windows Server, no IIS, no .NET, and no SQL Server to license on your side.

Yes. In May 2023, the Cl0p ransomware group used CVE-2023-34362, a SQL injection zero-day in MOVEit Transfer, to break into more than 2,700 organizations and steal data on more than 90 million individuals. The fallout pulled 240+ class-action lawsuits into a single federal case. Thirteen months later, CVE-2024-5806, a separate SFTP login bypass rated CVSS 9.1, arrived with working attack code public the same day as Progress’s advisory. Files.com has run for 15+ years with zero breaches.

Yes. Files.com is one product covering SFTP / FTPS / FTP / WebDAV, Automations, Inboxes, Share Links, AS2, and the REST API under one license. MOVEit needs three: Transfer for the protocols, Automation for the workflows (licensed separately), and ShareFile (which Progress acquired in 2024) for person-to-person sharing.

No. Files.com is multi-tenant cloud-native: there’s no Windows Server, no IIS, no .NET 4.8, and no SQL Server to license, patch, or maintain. MOVEit (including MOVEit Cloud) still runs the same Windows / .NET / IIS / SQL Server stack it launched on.

Files.com’s US-based Customer Engineering team runs the migration end-to-end. User accounts, SFTP credentials, scheduled workflows, AS2 certificates, and SSO configuration all cut over with our team doing the work. Trading-partner endpoints move without changing their client configuration. We provide as much onboarding as your migration requires.

Yes. Files.com is SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS certified, with a HIPAA BAA and GDPR DPA available. Files.com is also FedRAMP Certified at Class A under the current FedRAMP 20x program, with the Class B upgrade in progress. Compliance evidence, audit trails, and reports are generated inside the platform, built for the auditor your procurement team brings to the table.

Yes. The Files.com Agent installs on Windows servers and bridges your Windows-anchored file workflows to the Files.com cloud platform.

MOVEit’s public web and SFTP services run the same .NET application at thousands of customer installations simultaneously. When a CVE drops, every customer is exposed at the same moment and must patch under time pressure. Files.com is multi-tenant cloud-native: there is no customer-owned application instance, and operational patching happens centrally before any customer is exposed.

The Decision

A long-tenured MOVEit shop has years of Automation jobs built up, and that library is real work to leave. Files.com’s Customer Engineering team rebuilds your scheduled workflows as part of the migration.

Choose Files.com. One license covers Inboxes, Automations, Share Links, and the on-premise Agent, where MOVEit needs Transfer plus Automation plus ShareFile across three SKUs. Files.com is cloud-native, so you’re never up at night patching a Windows server the day the next MOVEit CVE lands.

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