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Apply Digital Signatures on AS2 Messages Without HTTPS

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Although you can run AS2 over HTTPS in order to provide encryption, authentication, data integrity, and non-repudiation to your EDI exchanges, it's not necessary. You can still get the same level of protection if you use AS2's built-in support for encryption and digital signatures. We already talked about AS2 encryption in a previous post, so this time, let's focus on digital signatures.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, AS2

Why SHA2 Certificates Are Imperative in Secure File Transfers

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Over the last few months, we've been receiving a growing number of inquiries on how to enable support for SHA2 certificates in JSCAPE MFT Server. We later learned that the intention was not just to accommodate SHA2-signed certs but to actually replace SHA1-signed certs with them.In this post, we explain why people are moving from SHA1 to SHA2 and why you need to do so as well.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, FTPS

Providing Network Services From An Internal Network While Prohibiting Inbound Connections

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Some organizations that deal with exceptionally sensitive information need to employ very stringent access restrictions to their internal networks. While a DMZ consisting of firewalls and reverse proxies can, in most cases, meet such requirements, providing network services from the internal network to external clients while also prohibiting inbound connections can be quite challenging. This little reverse proxy enhancement can simplify things.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, Reverse Proxy

Using Tags To Restrict Administrative Access to Certain Data In Your MFT Server

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

In our last post, we talked about how you could get more granular when delegating administrative privileges on your MFT Server by using what we call Administrative Roles. Today, we teach you how to get even more granular by employing Administrative Tags.

 

 

 

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

Get More Granular When Delegating Admin Privileges On Your MFT Server

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Many MFT server deployments are being managed by multiple administrators. But because these admins usually have different tasks and responsibilities, there's been a growing clamor for greater granularity when delegating admin privileges. That granularity has finally arrived.

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

Key Provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has drawn a tsunami of reactions both for and against it. For sure, it's going to be a game changer in global trade. But how does it concern us?

Business transactions are now accompanied by massive data exchanges. It's thus expected for the agreement to tackle the conduct of those data exchanges as well. In this post, we take a look at the agreement's provisions on data transfers and try to understand how they might affect current practices.

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Topics: News, JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer

SSL vs SSH - A Not-So-Technical Comparison

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

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

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 Use A Windows FTP Client For Secure Downloads

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Despite FTP's vulnerabilities, many Windows users still use FTP clients for transferring files over the Internet. If you really have to keep using that archaic file transfer protocol, at least do it securely. Here's what we suggest when using a Windows FTP Client for secure downloads.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, FTP

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