When it comes to securely transferring files over the internet, the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) stands out as one of the most trusted and reliable solutions available. Its core security features make it extremely popular among organizations that handle sensitive data. Many of our customers, spanning diverse sectors such as financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, logistics, defense, research, aerospace and e-commerce, rely on SFTP to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of their data transfers.

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Many of our customers use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for their business file transfers. While SFTP is certainly a good choice for organizations looking to securely transfer multiple files or large files directly to their intended recipient, it’s not the only solution suited for that purpose. In this post, we’ll review seven secure FTP alternatives and discuss their advantages and disadvantages compared to what many consider the de-facto standard for secure, multi-file and large file transfers. 

Any organization that exchanges sensitive files with another party through the internet or any wide area network should carry out those exchanges through some form of secure file transfer software. At a minimum, secure file transfer software helps ensure that your data reaches its intended destination intact and unaltered. More advanced solutions offer additional benefits as well. 

When you’re troubleshooting connectivity issues between Secure Shell (SSH)/Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) clients and servers, it pays to inspect the error messages generated on both sides of a connection. Those messages often provide vital clues about the problem. If your error messages involve the Diffie-Hellman-Group1-SHA1 key exchange algorithm, you’ll want to stick around. In the succeeding sections, we’ll be discussing the underlying cause of this particular issue and how to fix it.  

In many industries, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is increasingly becoming the preferred method of conducting business-to-business (B2B) document exchanges between business partners. EDI enables you to carry out B2B exchanges in an efficient, secure and cost-effective manner. If you’re just getting started with EDI, you can use this comprehensive guide as a jump-off point for all the things you need to learn and put in place to properly implement electronic data interchange with your business partners. 

While the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol is more closely associated with collaboration activities, it’s also equipped with file transfer functionality. But how good is it as a file transfer solution? Can it, for instance, match the capabilities of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)? Let’s find out.  

Despite the growing adoption of cloud-based alternatives, many organizations still use theWeb Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol for file sharing, versioning, transfer and management. Some companies support it for backward compatibility. Others, by virtue of company data privacy policies that prohibit the use of cloud-based solutions, turn to self-managed WebDAV servers instead. 

Managed file transfer is a category of solutions that enable secure, centrally managed, regulatory-compliant, automated, reliable and efficient data movement. An MFT solution can support a full range of file transfer needs — from user-initiated file transfers and multi-user file sharing to automated business-to-business (B2B) data exchanges. It’s essentially an all-in-one solution that caters to organizations looking to simplify increasingly complex data transfer workflows.