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by Tim Young | Nov 26, 2024 | Informational, MFT
Are we about to enter the third era of the World Wide Web and secure file transfer? Many technology experts and journalists feel that we are about to enter a new era of data transfer built on HTTP/3. As more server operating systems support the protocol, data and... ![Is a secure file transfer server also a file server?]()
by Tim Young | Sep 20, 2024 | Informational
We spend a lot of time talking about secure file transfer servers, but every organization operates with a number of other file servers. Today, we’ll break down how secure file transfer servers are the same as, and different from, other types of servers. Is a file... by Patrick Mills | Mar 6, 2024 | Informational, Windows Server
In Cerberus FTP Server 2024.1.1, we have added enhanced processing during shutdown. Cerberus is typically run as a service but can also be run in standalone mode. During shutdown, Cerberus will disable new transactions and attempt to empty all its message queues.... by Patrick Mills | Mar 6, 2024 | Informational, Web Client
In Cerberus FTP Server 2024.1, we have added support for Duo Universal Prompt. For users who have Duo enabled, the traditional Duo Prompt enabled in previous versions of Cerberus will stop functioning on March 30, 2024; upgrading to the latest version is required for... by Paul Harada | Nov 16, 2023 | FTP Server Security, Informational, New Release
One-Time Password (OTP) secured public file sharing is now available in Cerberus FTP Server 13.2. With this release, users have the ability to restrict and track access of public file shares from the web-client with a new security option that restricts access to the... by Patrick Mills | Sep 5, 2023 | Informational, News, SFTP Background
In Cerberus FTP Server 13.1, we have implemented support for multiple SSH host keys. This user-requested feature allows enabling one or more of the currently supported key types: RSA, DSA, ECDSA, EdDSA 25519 and EdDSA 448. In order to allow this feature, we have... by Patrick Mills | Sep 5, 2023 | Informational, News
In Cerberus FTP Server 13.1, we have moved Certificate Signing Request (CSR) functionality from a Windows dialog into the web based user interface. The associated menu item under Tools has also been removed. This means that administrators can now access this... by Patrick Mills | Oct 16, 2023 | Informational, SSO, Web Client
Single Sign-On (SSO) provides a seamless authentication experience to users, allowing them to log in once and access all authorized applications without the need to enter separate credentials. Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard protocol for... by Patrick Mills | Mar 22, 2024 | Informational, MFT
Continuing from our TLS enhancements introduced in Cerberus FTP Server 12.11, we are adding new key exchange and cipher options as shown in the screenshot below: Key Exchange Algorithms Version 13 adds Edwards Curves (x25519 and x448) to the supported list of KEXs.... by Grant Averett | Jul 18, 2022 | FTP Server Administration, Informational, New Release, News
About our New Public Key Uploading and Editing Features We’ve introduced several new features in 12.9 to make working with user and group SSH public keys easier. You can now perform the following tasks for users and groups in Cerberus FTP Server through... by Paul Harada | May 9, 2022 | FTP Basics, Informational, New Release, Web Client, Windows Server
Cerberus FTP is pleased to provide long file path support in all of its file system operations. Following Windows 10 removal of the maximum of 260 characters for a file name and folder path limitation, this enhancement enables the ability to navigate through to a... by Vincent Drake | Mar 28, 2022 | FTP Server Administration, Informational, New Release, News
This feature allows administrators to acknowledge system messages, hiding them from the System Messages list. About System Message Acknowledgment The Cerberus FTP Server System Messages area is where the server communicates potential security issues to system... by Tim Young | Feb 23, 2022 | Automation, Informational
Secure file transfer keeps coming up as a prominent business need that requires a high degree of oversight and attention. Some organizations treat secure file transfer in a more reactive, ad-hoc fashion: data must be moved from one location to another, involving... by Patrick Mills | Feb 23, 2022 | Informational, News, Web Client
Starting in version 12.5, Cerberus FTP Server Enterprise Edition introduces user requested improvements to our file sharing system including: Never Expires / Max Date optionImproved Specific Date selectionImproved short term link creation About the new feature The new... by Paul Harada | Feb 23, 2022 | Informational, News, Web Client
Save clicks and time with this new and efficiency-improving feature – download multiple files and folders by bundling them together in a single downloadable file. About the new feature Users have frequently requested a faster way to download multiple files and... by Ron Hagag | Mar 7, 2024 | FTP Basics, Informational, Windows Server
Despite the perception that the world is moving to cloud FTP solutions, many companies prefer to keep file servers on-premise based on factors like security, availability, and cost. For such companies, the most common environment in the world, with approximately 50%... by Ron Hagag | Jan 21, 2022 | FTP Basics, Informational
On-premise FTP Servers and cloud FTP environments both come with benefits and drawbacks, leading many IT managers and system administrators to set up hybrid file transfer/cloud storage solutions. In this guide, we review the key differences between on-premise and... by Grant Averett | Dec 30, 2021 | FTP Server Security, Informational, News
Cerberus is not and cannot be affected by the log4j 0-day vulnerability described by CVE-2021-44228. Cerberus FTP Server does not use the vulnerable Java log4j library, but a similar C++ rewrite called Log4cxx. The Log4cxx library is patterned... by Paul Harada | Oct 26, 2021 | FTP Server Administration, Informational, News, Reporting
What’s New We are excited to bring administrators a brand new report to display access to your Cerberus FTP folders. Together with the recent addition of secondary group memberships and AD & LDAP reporting features, this report combines and displays all users... by Grant Averett | Sep 3, 2021 | FTP Server Administration, Informational, News, Reporting
What’s New We’ve added four major new account management and reporting features in Cerberus FTP Server 12.2: Showing group membership from Active Directory (AD) group to Cerberus group mappings for AD usersNative Cerberus users now have secondary groups to allow...