Evaluating Globalscape (now part of Fortra ) in the context of AI data governance requires a distinction between and AI Governance Platforms . Globalscape is a leader in secure MFT rather than a dedicated AI governance provider. However, its core functions—securing the "data in transit" that fuels AI models—make it a critical foundational layer for any AI-ready data strategy. Globalscape's Role in the AI Data Lifecycle
The problem wasn’t the AI. It was the data feeding the AI. And seventy percent of that external training data arrived via Globalscape’s competitors—clunky MFT tools that had no memory, no lineage, and no policy enforcement once the file landed. Managed File Transfer (MFT) Evaluating Globalscape (now part
, stared at the LLM hallucination report. Her team had spent six months fine-tuning a diagnostic AI model on ten years of patient records. The model was brilliant—except it had begun recommending treatments based on a “Dr. James Smith” who had left the practice in 1998. The source? A corrupted, ungoverned CSV file left on an old SFTP server. Dr. Eleanor Vance
The true test came three weeks later. A product manager in Axiom’s marketing team used an unapproved OpenAI API key to feed claims data into a public LLM—a cardinal sin. The data left the building via… an ad-hoc FTP script. Not through approved channels. Chief Data Officer at Axiom Health