The file transfer software options available today aren't all created equal. Evaluating solutions based on your organization's needs goes beyond splitting hairs over technical features. The best file transfer solution must significantly enhance your organization’s security and operational efficiency. That’s because when you choose a file transfer provider, you choose who your organization will trust with your most valuable asset: data. As the digital landscape advances, so does the need for seamless automation, rapid data exchange and uncompromising security.
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Best file transfer software for Mac and PC users
Updated by Sheri Otto on
Topics: Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, file transfer
How to simplify IT complexity with a secure file transfer service
Updated by Sheri Otto on
In an era dominated by digital transformation and the exchange of sensitive data, the security and efficiency of file transfers have become top-of-mind for IT leaders in enterprise-level organizations. When managing complex IT environments requiring robust, reliable, and secure file transfer protocols, you may face mounting pressures.
Read MoreTopics: Secure File Transfer, file transfer, mft solutions
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.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, AS2
How to setup SFTP public key authentication on the command line
Updated by John Carl Villanueva on
Most customers who use SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for file transfer automation prefer to authenticate SFTP clients through SFTP keys instead of passwords. Given the numerous inquiries on how to set up and use SFTP public key authentication, we decided to publish how-to articles to help organizations that wish to implement this authentication method in their SFTP environment. This article will focus on setting up instructions for the command line.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, HMAC