Secure File Transfer and Business Continuity Planning
Introduction
What is business continuity planning (BCP)?
According to Wikipedia, business continuity planning is the process of creating systems of prevention and recovery to deal with potential threats to a company.
Business Continuity Planning also includes these five components as defined by the SANS Institute. These components are:
- Business Resumption …
SFTPPlus Release 3.35.0
We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.35.0.
New Features
- The OpenSSL library used by SFTPPlus on Windows was updated to OpenSSL 1.1.0h. [#4579]
- It is now possible to define virtual folders that are available to all accounts from a group. These …
Setting up security scanners for your SFTPPlus MFT Server
Introduction
The following is a short guide on how you can set up a security scanner for your SFTPPlus MFT Server installation. For this guide, we have chosen a free and open source scanner, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy or zaproxy, as an example.
Of course, there are a number of …
SFTPPlus Release 3.34.1
We have recently deployed the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.34.1 which fixes the following defects:
- The files downloaded using the HTTP file transfer service now have explicit headers to disable caching. [security][http][https] [#4953]
- The HTTP service no longer returns user input as part of the …
IPv6 support for HTTP/S, FTP/S, SFTP and SCP File Transfer Services
Why get ready for IPv6?
According to the Akamai Q1 2017 State of the Internet Connectivity Report, "approximately 5 million IPv4 addresses were depleted from available pools at the Regional Internet Registries in the first quarter, leaving approximately 39 million addresses remaining."
In response to the steady depletion of IPv4 …
SFTPPlus Release 3.34.0
We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.34.0.
A number of changes have been made in regards to how permissions are set in SFTPPlus.
If you are planning to upgrade your existing installation and you have custom permissions for SFTPPlus accounts and / or groups …
Secure cipher suites for the ssl_cipher_list configuration
Default SSL cipher suites
With the release of SFTPPlus 3.32.0, we have changed the default set of SSL cipher suites for the Local Manager and the HTTPS service. As with any product that runs in many environments, SFTPPlus uses a default set of SSL-related parameters that are a …