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What The EU-US Safe Harbor Is All About And How It May Affect Your Business

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

As of this writing, the United States and European Union are in the thick of negotiations for a new Safe Harbor agreement. The result can have a profound impact on thousands of global businesses. In this post, we introduce you to the original Safe Harbor, how it came about, why it's been recently invalidated, and the possible impacts its future holds for a large number of businesses.

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Topics: News, JSCAPE MFT

Want To Do Direct EDI Communications? Secure These First

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

There are two ways of exchanging EDI messages. You can do it directly or you can course it through a third party service provider like a VAN (Value Added Network). While the first option is generally more complicated, it's certainly very doable. In this post, we'll talk about some of the key components you'll have to secure before you can start sending EDI messages directly to your trading partners.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

SSL vs SSH - A Not-So-Technical Comparison

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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

EDI Transmission Types Every Trading Partner Should Know

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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

What EDI Is And Why It's Easier To Implement Than Ever Before

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Overview: What EDI Is

Although already in existence for about 40 years, EDI is not yet as widespread as it ought to be. But recent technological advancements and favorable business conditions are changing that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

Schedule File Synchronization Between Servers | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

This post talks about the benefits of setting up automated file synchronization between two servers and how to do it using JSCAPE MFT Server.

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

What is EDI X12?

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Most industries in the US use the EDI X12 standard for electronic data interchange. So if you're looking to perform automated business transactions in the US, you have to be familiar with it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

Adding Email Notification To A File Transfer Server Antivirus Upload Scan

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

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

Automating An Upload Virus Scan Using A Windows File Transfer Server And Kaspersky

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

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.

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

How To Get Your MFT Server Email You A List Of Old Files

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Overview>

We already taught you how to set up your MFT server to automatically delete old files and zip old files. Would you like to learn how to generate a list and then receive an email of that list as well? If so, read on.

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

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