Overview
Passwords (even strong ones) can sometimes fall into the wrong hands. To minimize the risk of granting access to an impersonator who might have managed to obtain someone else's username and password, you might need to employ what is known as two factor authentication (2FA). What is it?
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP
JSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of AnyClient 4.2. This release includes several new features and enhancements, highlights of which include:
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Managed File Transfer,
Business Process Automation,
Tutorials,
SFTP,
Triggers,
FTP
Overview
Before any files can be securely sent over protocols like FTPS, HTTPS, and SFTP, the two communicating parties must engage in a key exchange. What's that?
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
key exchange
SFTP vs. SCP Overview
Both SCP and SFTP run over TCP port 22 by default. Both are also used for transferring files. So are they one and the same? If not, what's the difference between the two? In this post, we compare them in terms of qualities essential to file transfers: speed, security, functionality, support for large files, and support for resuming transfers. Let's see which protocol has the advantage.
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
file transfer,
SCP
Overview
Several months ago, we published a tutorial crafted to help network/server administrators prepare trading partners for SFTP automation. That article lacked one important feature found in SFTP - public key authentication. So today, we've devoted one full tutorial that focuses on that.
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Managed File Transfer,
Business Process Automation,
Tutorials,
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP
While using SFTP on the command line, there might be instances when you'll want to upload or download an entire directory and all the the files and subdirectories underneath it. To accomplish that, you'll need the recursive argument -r.
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Topics:
SFTP
Overview: File Transfer Protocols for Businesses
Still wondering which file transfer protocol is right for your business? Here are a dozen you can choose from. Below this list, we've also added brief descriptions of these data transfer types to make your choice easier.
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- FTPS (FTP over SSL)
- HTTPS (HTTP over SSL)
- SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
- SCP (Secure Copy)
- WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
- WebDAVS
- TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
- AS2 (Applicability Statement 2)
- OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol)
- AFTP (Accelerated File Transfer Protocol)
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Topics:
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
Accelerated File Transfer,
transfer protocols
Most of these file transfer protocols should already be running on your network. Can you identify their respective default port numbers?
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Topics:
SFTP,
FTPS,
AS2,
FTP
Overview
SCP (Secure Copy) is a quick, easy way to transfer files securely between two Linux machines. If you don't mind using the command line and all you want is a simple way to upload or download files on Linux, this series of SCP examples should be all you'll need to learn how to do it.
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Topics:
Tutorials,
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP
Overview
Not many organizations require AES 256 encryption to secure their sensitive documents. But those who do might find this post quite useful. Here, we'll show you how to enable FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, WebDAVS, OFTP, and AS2 file transfers with AES 256 bit encryption. Does that look like something you can use? Read on!
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Topics:
JSCAPE MFT,
Secure File Transfer,
SFTP,
FTPS,
AS2