In order to keep transactions secure, you and your trading partners likely use SFTP and other encrypted protocols for your automated data exchanges. In this post, I'd like to share a method that can reduce the steps you typically take in applying SFTP automation to certain business processes. Here, you'll learn how to gather remote host credentials into a single entity, which you can later on reuse every time you need to construct another automated process.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, Triggers
In this post, we'll discuss the algorithms in a typical SFTP server and explain their basic functions. We'll cover algorithms for key exchanges, ciphers, MACs, and compressions. After that, we'll dive into the JSCAPE MFT Server Manager Web GUI and show you where you can configure those SFTP algorithms.
Having a basic understanding of these algorithms and knowing where to configure them will enable you to strengthen your SFTP server's security or troubleshoot certain client connection issues.
Note: SFTP runs on SSH, and the algorithms you'll be setting are actually SSH algorithms.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP
This post is for those of you who want to dive right into the steps of setting up a SFTP server. I'm sure some of you have been resourceful enough to go through the documentation and sift through all the relevant pages in there. But for those who just want one place for it all, this is the article for you.
For this tutorial, I'll be using JSCAPE MFT Server, our managed FTP server that supports SSH FTP as well as a number of other secure file transfer protocols. Since this managed file transfer server is built from Java, it can run on different platforms, including Microsoft Windows (32 and 64 bit), Linux/UNIX, Solaris, AIX, IBM z/OS and Mac OS, with support for SSL and TSL.
If you want to follow this tutorial, you may download a free evaluation edition of JSCAPE MFT Server by clicking here.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP
JSCAPE MFT Server encrypted file transfer protocols like SFTP and those secured through TLS (e.g. HTTPS, FTPS, AS2, OFTP, and WebDAVS) can be configured for FIPS compliance. Since this is a function that isn't switched on by default, you might wonder if it's necessary to enable it at all.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS
An active-active high availability SFTP cluster can greatly reduce the chances of downtime by allowing two or more SFTP servers share the load. If you'd like to learn an easy way of setting up this kind of cluster, check out this post.
Note: This post was originally published on Sept 2016 but was updated and re-published on Oct 2018.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, SFTP
In this quick tutorial, you'll discover an easy way to set up a failover server for your SFTP server and in turn build an SFTP active-passive high availability cluster.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, SFTP
Learn how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server to fetch files from multiple SFTP servers and then send those files to a trading partner.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Business Process Automation, Videos, Tutorials, SFTP, Triggers
Theoretically, RSA keys that are 2048 bits long should be good until 2030. If so, isn't it a bit early to start using the 4096-bit keys that have become increasingly available in encryption-enabled applications? It depends.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, RSA 4096
Demonstrates how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it monitors a directory for newly added files and then upload each file to a remote SFTP server.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Videos, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP
In this video, you'll learn how to set up server and client keys on your SFTP server. This will enable your SFTP server with production environment-ready data-in-motion encryption and public key authentication capabilities.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Videos, Tutorials, SFTP