In our last post, we talked about how you could get more granular when delegating administrative privileges on your MFT Server by using what we call Administrative Roles. Today, we teach you how to get even more granular by employing Administrative Tags.
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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer
Many MFT server deployments are being managed by multiple administrators. But because these admins usually have different tasks and responsibilities, there's been a growing clamor for greater granularity when delegating admin privileges. That granularity has finally arrived.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership has drawn a tsunami of reactions both for and against it. For sure, it's going to be a game changer in global trade. But how does it concern us?
Business transactions are now accompanied by massive data exchanges. It's thus expected for the agreement to tackle the conduct of those data exchanges as well. In this post, we take a look at the agreement's provisions on data transfers and try to understand how they might affect current practices.
Read MoreTopics: News, JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer
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.
Read MoreTopics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS
When your server antivirus detects malware infection on a recent file upload, what would you like it to do? In our case, we prefer it to email us an alert notification. That way, we wouldn't have to check the logs periodically to see if a virus was found. This post details how we'd achieve that.
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A couple of years ago, we wrote a 3-part tutorial showing how you could automate FTP virus scans with Kaspersky Antivirus. That article, which was written based on a Linux environment, is in need of an update. But before we make changes there, here's a similar article that Windows users should find suited for them.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer
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.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, FTP
SSL and TLS have many similarities. That's why, in most software applications, they're configured together as "SSL/TLS". However, there are several differences between SSL and TLS well, which is what we're going to talk about now.
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Have you ever been in a situation where you had to enter an email service’s Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) port number? What number did you specify? 25? 587? 465? All three TCP port numbers are associated with SMTP. SMTP differs from other network protocols in a way that it’s associated with multiple port numbers. Most network protocols are only associated with one. For example, FTP = 21, SFTP = 22, HTTP = 80 and so on.
Read MoreTopics: Secure File Transfer, FTP, SMTP ports, port 587, port 25
Passwords (even strong ones) can sometimes fall into the wrong hands. To minimize the risk of granting access to an impersonator who might have managed to obtain someone else's username and password, you might need to employ what is known as two factor authentication (2FA). What is it?
Read MoreTopics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP