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Key Security Criteria to Evaluate When Choosing an MFT Solution

Updated by Van Glass on

Managed File Transfer (MFT) has become an essential component of secure data exchange for businesses. Whether you are transferring sensitive financial information, confidential customer data, or critical intellectual property, selecting the right MFT solution is crucial. The security of your data and the trustworthiness of the solution are paramount considerations. Given recent breaches that have affected several MFT solutions, we will discuss important security criteria that should be considered.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer

How To Automate An SFTP File Transfer

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Automated SFTP file transfers are traditionally done through scripts, but there's a much easier way. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to automate SFTP file transfers without scripting a single line of code.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, Triggers

What Is AES Encryption And How Does It Work?

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview: What Is AES?

First adopted by the U.S. government to protect classified information, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has long gained global acceptance and is used for securing sensitive data in various industries. In this post, we'll discuss AES encryption and explain its vital role in securing sensitive files sent over the Internet.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, AS2

Setting Up SFTP Public Key Authentication On The Command Line

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

SFTP provides an alternative method for ssh client authentication. It's called SFTP public key authentication. This method allows users to login to your SFTP service without using password authentication and is often employed for file transfer automation. In this post, we'll walk you through the process of setting up this kind of authentication on the command line. It's easier to do this on a GUI-based interface but if you prefer to do things on the terminal, this post is for you.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, authentication

How To Automatically Transfer Files From SFTP To Azure Blob Storage Via Network Storage

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Let's say you have trading partners who can only transfer files to you via SFTP. Incidentally, you also happen to have an account on Azure Blob Storage and you prefer to store those files there. You're probably thinking: How can I automatically copy files from my SFTP server to Azure Blob Storage? That's easy if you're using JSCAPE MFT Server.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP

Three Ways To Generate OpenPGP Keys

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

JSCAPE MFT Server makes it easy to strengthen secure file transfers with OpenPGP encryption and decryption. But before you can protect your files with this cryptography method, you need to create the necessary public/private key pairs. In this post, we'll introduce you to three ways of doing that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, OpenPGP keys

How To Set Up A HTTPS File Transfer: HTTPS File Sharing

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

In this post, you'll learn how to set up a HTTPS file transfer. We'll begin with a Quick Start, where you'll use the default settings in order to get a HTTPS file transfer service up and running with just a few clicks. After that, we'll tackle some of the more advanced settings so you can choose your desired set of SSL/TLS cipher suites and server key. Your choice of cipher suites and keys will have an effect on the security of your HTTPS file sharing and its compatibility with your users' web browsers.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer

What Is HMAC (Hash-based message authentication code), And How Does It Secure File Transfers?

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

An Overview of HMAC

Data integrity checks are vital to secure communications. They enable communicating parties to verify the integrity and authenticity of the messages they receive. In secure file transfer protocols like FTPS, SFTP, and HTTPS, data integrity/message authentication is usually achieved through a mechanism known as HMAC (Hash-based message authentication code). In this post, we explain what HMAC is, its basic inner workings, and how it secures data transfers.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, HMAC

What Is HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)?

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

When I first read about HSTS, my first reaction was, "What's this? A replacement for HTTPS? Considering the ubiquity of HTTPS, shouldn't we be working to improve it first instead of replacing it?" Turned out, my initial understanding of HTTP Strict Transport Security was off the mark.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer

That Free FTP Server Might Cost More Than You Think

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

As you scout for the most cost-effective way of transmitting files with your business units and trading partners, among the many file sharing solutions that will likely stand out are free FTP servers. Most of these software applications are already bundled (or readily available through repositories) in operating systems like Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, so they likely don't require additional costs ... or so it seems.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Secure File Transfer

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