[Last updated: December 2020] Malicious insiders and careless insiders are increasingly posing serious risks to file transfer systems. If nothing is done to mitigate them, these internal threats can cause data loss or, worse, massive penalty-inducing data breaches. In this post, we take a closer look at internal threats, how they put file transfer systems at risk, and what you can do to mitigate them.
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In one of our previous posts, we taught you how to sync a Windows folder with an AWS S3 bucket. This time, we'll show you how to do that with a Linux directory.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Triggers
Many businesses use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to transfer data between business units or to trading partners. With the growing adoption of cloud solutions, it makes sense to leverage the cloud to enhance deep-rooted solutions like SFTP. For instance, you can integrate your SFTP server with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) so that files SFTP users and trading partners upload to that server are automatically forwarded to an AWS S3 bucket.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, SFTP, AWS, S3
When business processes involve multiple cloud storage solutions, things can get quite tricky for IT administrators. In this post, we discuss some of the challenges IT admins face when managing and performing file transfers with multi cloud storage solutions and how you can address them using JSCAPE MFT Server.
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There are several possible reasons why you might want to copy files from Azure Blob Storage to AWS S3 (or vise versa). Maybe you want to migrate from one cloud to another. Maybe you subscribe to both cloud storage solutions and want to synchronize between the two. Maybe you just want to perform a backup. Whatever reason you might have, here's a solution that doesn't require a single line of code, can run fully automated, and can be used for other cloud storage and network services as well.
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All this time, you've been uploading loads upon loads of files onto your Azure Blob Storage container. But now, you have this workflow that will need some of those files on a monthly basis. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it will download a certain set of files from your Azure Blob Storage container on a pre-defined schedule.
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Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one way to do that is by using AES-256 Amazon S3 server-side encryption. We'll show you how to use this particular service in this post; and if you want to request a free trial, click here.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer
In previous posts, we taught you how to set up an Agent service and trading partner. We also taught you how to install an agent on a remote Windows host devoid of any file transfer service. Let's now put that agent to work. In this post, we're going to teach you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that that remote Windows host can synchronize files with an Amazon S3 bucket.
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Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one way to do that is by using the AWS Key Management Service or AWS KMS. We'll show you how to use this particular service in this post.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers
Last time, we taught you how to install a JSCAPE MFT Server Agent on a remote Windows host with no file transfer service. But what if that remote host is a Linux machine? This post will help you with that.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials