Haven't yet found any compelling reason to deploy data security solutions like managed file transfer (MFT) and data loss prevention (DLP)? Looks like the European Union is about to give you one. If provisions in the leaked draft of the regulation for the new European Data Protection Directive get carried over into the final form of the law, EU companies as well as global companies who operate in EU-member states will have to improve IT security in order to comply with the regulation or risk incurring heavy penalties.

In part 1 of this article, you learned how to setup JSCAPE MFT Server so that it could run an Avast Antivirus auto-scan on each newly uploaded file. Just like all antivirus programs, Avast! for Linux/Unix Servers can only be truly effective if its virus database is up-to-date

Google allows GMail account users to access their account using any capable email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail.app and others. For this to work GMail provides POP and IMAP access to these client applications so that they can access emails stored on GMail servers. In addition to this, GMail provides access to its SMTP server to allow these clients to send emails through it. In order to prevent abuse such as spamming and to provide increased security the GMail SMTP server requires that you connect using SMTP SSL and login using your account credentials prior to sending any mail. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to securely connect to the GMail SMTP server and send mail using a bit of Java code which make use of com.jscape.inet.smtpssl.SmtpSsl class found in Secure iNet Factory. The procedures in this article may also apply to other SMTP servers that provide secure SSL/TLS access.
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GMail account Secure
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JSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of SSH Factory 3.8.0.

This video shows how to restrict access to MFTExpress by IP address. This feature allows users to increase security without getting an administrator involved.

If you are like most organizations, then your FTP server accepts file uploads from both internal users (employees) and external users (customers and business partners). In addition to ensuring that data is transmitted securely via encrypted protocols such as FTPS and/or PGP, you should also take measures to verify that the data received does not contain a virus or trojan.

Recently, Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2010-4476 was released to fix a Denial of Service issue with the Java Runtime Environment.

Public Key Authentication (PKA) is a more secure way to authenticate to a server than just using passwords. If you're security conscious (and who shouldn't be?) you'll want to enable it on your server for SFTP. Using PKA involves a little more effort during the set up phase than just passwords, but it's worth it for the added security.

This video shows how to set up and use OpenPGP in JSCAPE MFT Server. OpenPGP allows you to encrypt and decrypt files for increased security. If you haven't already, you may want to watch Installing Additional Libraries Needed for OpenPGP/SFTP Ciphers on JSCAPE MFT Server.

This video demonstrates how to use Public Key Authentication with MFTExpress. You can generate or import keys within the Web interface, then connect with AnyClient or other SFTP clients.

MFTExpress offers secure online storage space that can be accessed using FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS file transfer protocols. Store files on MFTExpress and easily share them via email with your clients and co-workers using our unique ad-hoc file transfer service.