Overview
Over the last few months, we've been receiving a growing number of inquiries on how to enable support for SHA2 certificates in JSCAPE MFT Server. We later learned that the intention was not just to accommodate SHA2-signed certs but to actually replace SHA1-signed certs with them.In this post, we explain why people are moving from SHA1 to SHA2 and why you need to do so as well.
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
FTPS
Overview
There are a couple of reasons why you'll want to map file transfer server drives to Samba shares. Maybe your users have existing files on a separate machine that doesn't have any file transfer service running on it but does have Samba. Or perhaps your file transfer server lacks disk space and you want to extend storage on a separate (Samba-equipped) machine.
Whatever your reasons are, this is how you map FTP, FTPS, or SFTP server drives to Samba shares on JSCAPE MFT Server.
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Managed File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
FTP
Overview
The most widely used secure file transfer protocols, SFTP and FTPS, get their security from underlying protocols. SFTP from SSH and FTPS from SSL. Let's compare the two.
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS
Overview
In order to conduct Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions with a trading partner, businesses need a way of transmitting their EDI messages. Today, we take a look at the most widely used EDI transmission types, their main characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages.
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Topics:
SFTP,
FTPS,
AS2,
FTP
Despite FTP's vulnerabilities, many Windows users still use FTP clients for transferring files over the Internet. If you really have to keep using that archaic file transfer protocol, at least do it securely. Here's what we suggest when using a Windows FTP Client for secure downloads.
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
FTP
Overview
In our previous post, we showed you how to use two triggers to upload a second file only if the first upload succeeded. Here's a shorter way to do it.
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Managed File Transfer,
Business Process Automation,
SFTP,
FTPS
Overview
Before any files can be securely sent over protocols like FTPS, HTTPS, and SFTP, the two communicating parties must engage in a key exchange. What's that?
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
key exchange
Overview: File Transfer Protocols for Businesses
Still wondering which file transfer protocol is right for your business? Here are a dozen you can choose from. Below this list, we've also added brief descriptions of these data transfer types to make your choice easier.
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- FTPS (FTP over SSL)
- HTTPS (HTTP over SSL)
- SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
- SCP (Secure Copy)
- WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
- WebDAVS
- TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
- AS2 (Applicability Statement 2)
- OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol)
- AFTP (Accelerated File Transfer Protocol)
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
Accelerated File Transfer,
transfer protocols
Most of these file transfer protocols should already be running on your network. Can you identify their respective default port numbers?
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Topics:
SFTP,
FTPS,
AS2,
FTP
Overview
Not many organizations require AES 256 encryption to secure their sensitive documents. But those who do might find this post quite useful. Here, we'll show you how to enable FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, WebDAVS, OFTP, and AS2 file transfers with AES 256 bit encryption. Does that look like something you can use? Read on!
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
AS2