If your FTP/S service runs on JSCAPE MFT Server, it's possible to mirror files stored in that FTP server to an Amazon S3 bucket folder. We'll show you how to do that in this post.

Overview: What is the AS2 file transfer protocol?

AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is a file transfer protocol that enables organizations to conduct fully automated,server-to-server file transfers. You can use it to exchange business documents with one or more parties in a paper-free manner. AS2 can be used for exchanging digitized purchase orders, invoices, healthcare claims and other types of business documents. By exchanging these files through AS2, you can ensure message integrity, confidentiality and reliability.

AS2 is based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and incorporates Secure/Multipurpose Internet Email Extensions (S/MIME) for business-grade messaging. AS2’s built-in electronic receipt functionality, known as Message Disposition Notification (MDN), is a function of S/MIME. Since firewalls are normally configured to allow HTTP and HTTPS (HTTP secure) connections, you won’t have to apply any configuration changes to your firewall for AS2 to work.

The AS2 protocol can transfer almost any type of file over the Internet. However, it’s more closely associated with EDI messages. To get a good grasp of AS2, you need to understand what Electronic Data Interchange is first.

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to monitor directories on a remote SFTP server and then download any new files on a periodic basis.

In one of our previous posts, we talked about the importance of authenticating an SFTP host before logging into it and how to use the host's RSA key fingerprint to carry out the authentication. The same principle applies when you import a user's client key for public key authentication. If you'd like to walk through it with an expert, request a free trial.

One advantage of using JSCAPE MFT Server as your file transfer server is that it's so easy to extend the storage capacity of your user accounts to one or more remote services and storage solutions. And in this post, we're going to show you how to use a remote WebDAV service as a network storage for your JSCAPE MFT Server instance.

Some of the most common questions we get at our Help Desk revolves around how to migrate an existing JSCAPE MFT Server instance from one host to another. One of the easiest ways to do that is by using the Failover Synchronization module. In this post, we're going to use that feature to demonstrate a migration from a Windows host to another Windows host.

There are currently two ways of exchanging EDI documents. The first involves subscribing to a third party known as a Value Added Network (VAN), while the second involves using the AS2 protocol. Sure, there might be a few other less-known options, but these two are, by far, the most widely used. But which of these two options is best for your business? Let's examine some key considerations: Cost, interoperability, trading partner onboarding, and security and control.

When you request an electronic receipt a.k.a. Message Disposition Notification or MDN for your AS2 transmission from your trading partner, you can choose between two options: Sync MDN or Async MDN. In this post we'll show you how to use the latter.

To prevent confidential data from leaking out of your organization or getting stolen, your cyber security efforts have to be aimed at two areas: securing data-at-rest and securing data-in-transit (sometimes referred to as data-in-use). Data-in-transit is often secured by protocols that use an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and require encryption keys. But what about data-at-rest protection?

Let's say you have an FTP or FTPS server and you want to transfer files uploaded to it to an AWS S3 bucket. You can do that with just a few clicks if your FTP/S service is running on JSCAPE MFT Server. Let me show you how it's done.