Almost every organisation must send sensitive information outside its own walls. Hospitals share patient records. Law firms exchange case files. Finance teams move contracts and personal data between advisers. The industries differ; the underlying problem is the same. The moment a file leaves your organisation, you usually lose all control over it — and most of the tools people reach for have critical problems.
The everyday tools weren’t built for this
For most people, sending a file still means an email attachment, an FTP server, or a consumer file-sharing tool. Each carries a familiar set of problems:
For anyone handling sensitive or regulated data, these are major inconveniences. A file sent to the wrong recipient or left accessible after a process has ended is likely to be a reportable data breach — with the regulatory, financial and reputational cost that follows.
AMS File Transfer replaces those methods with one secure platform for moving and sharing files, inside and outside the organisation. The shift is from “send and hope” to precise, ongoing control.
Security by default. Files are encrypted in transit and at rest using 256-bit AES encryption, and every customer runs on their own segregated environment — not a shared consumer pool. Hosting is UK-based in Microsoft Azure, with geo-redundancy so data stays resilient against failure.
Control that lasts after you hit send. You can recall a transfer and remove access even after it has been delivered. Digital Rights Management lets you decide what a recipient can do with a file — for example view it in a secure portal viewer with no ability to download, save or print it.
No limits and built to automate. Where email and consumer tools reject anything large, AMS File Transfer has no file-size limits — so large files, such as health records, evidence bundles, and datasets move in a single transfer rather than being split, zipped or couriered. Exchange can be configured to allow two-way transfer, letting you securely receive files as well as send them, and routine transfers can be automated through AMS’ API integration — cutting out manual steps and the human error that comes with them.
Proven where it matters most. Amongst other regulated industries, the AMS Secure Cloud platform is trusted across the NHS to securely transfer sensitive patient data as part of SAR disclosure process. That pedigree is backed by recognised credentials, such as: AMS’ ISO 27001 certification, Cyber Essentials, alignment with the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), and penetration testing. A full audit trail records every transfer, view and download, so you can always evidence how sensitive information was handled.
Make it your own with Custom Branding. Your internal users and your external recipient's will benefit from your portal being branded with your corporate logo and colours. Custom branding ensures that secure transfers look authentic and offers reassurance, not only through your corporate branding look and feel but also through custom portal and email domains. People are trained to distrust unexpected links, so a portal and email notifications that visibly belongs to the sender is easier to trust and act on ensuring the process end to end is efficient for both parties.
Plenty of tools can move a file from A to B. The question that matters for sensitive data is what happens next — whether you can see it, restrict it, recall it, and prove how it was handled. That control is the difference between a convenient transfer and a defensible one, and it is what turns secure file transfer from a good to have into an essential part of how a responsible organisation operates.
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