Secure File Transfer News
Optimizing Your Managed File Transfer Solution – Getting the Most Out of MFT
For many administrators looking to save time by automating critical recurring data tasks, a Managed File Transfer (or MFT) software is their solution of choice. These file transfer solutions typically replace a large number of single-purpose data transfer tools with a...
Cerberus FTP Server 12.7 Introduces Password Reset for 2FA-Enabled Users
Cerberus FTP Server 12.7 now supports “Forgot your password?” password reset for accounts with Two Factor Authentication (2FA) enabled. What’s Changing? Prior to 12.7, accounts with 2FA enabled were simply not allowed to use the “forgotten password” reset. Following...
Cerberus FTP Server 12.7 Security Improvement: Content Security Policy Update
New in Cerberus FTP Server 12.7 Enterprise Edition is a tightening of security settings in the Web Administration and Web Client features. As part of our increased focus on security best practices, this change reduces cross-site scripting attack surfaces by...
Cerberus FTP Server 12.7 Introduces: Long File Path Support
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...
Cerberus FTP Server 12.7 Presents: New Security Warning on Session Reuse
As part of our continuous effort to pursue security best practices, Cerberus FTP Server now issues a security warning when FTP and FTPS listeners do not enforce session reuse. Once upgraded to version 12.7, running Cerberus FTP Server with FTP or FTPS listeners that...
New Security Warning on Cerberus FTP Server 12.6 – Get Notified When Running as LocalSystem
As part of our continuous effort to pursue best practices with IT credentials, Cerberus FTP Server now issues a security warning when running with LocalSystem service credentials.
What Being Certified as a Great Place to Work Means to Cerberus
Cerberus has grown quickly over the last 5 years, with most of our team joining during that time. Because our growth has been so rapid, we’ve put significant emphasis on how we build our team, and our recognition as being Great Place to Work-Certified is an incredibly...
Which File Transfer Protocols Should You Support?
If you’re planning to install a secure file server to allow your clients or employees to securely share files, but you’re not sure which protocols to support, you have a lot of options. This article will help you figure out the right protocols to support.
How to Ensure HIPAA Compliance on Your FTP/SFTP/FTPES Server
At Cerberus, we often receive questions related to HIPAA compliance and HIPAA-compliant file transfer. In this post, we address a number of those questions so you can feel comfortable when working with patient data. How Does HIPAA Govern Health Care Data Transfer? The...
Cerberus FTP Server 12.5 Introduces “Zip and Download” For Multiple Files
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 folders...
Cerberus FTP Server 12.5 introduces public shares that never expire
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...
Managed File Transfer Tips: Leveraging Automation to Increase Efficiency on Everyday Tasks
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...
Complete Guide to SFTP – Part 1: Concepts
SFTP, formally known as the SSH2 File Transfer Protocol, is a (relatively) new secure file transfer protocol that continues to evolve into a more widespread data standard due to its ease of use, straightforward configuration, and robust file/directory manipulation...
Windows Server Optimizations for SFTP: How to Make Your File Transfer Clean, Lean, Efficient
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%...
8 Criteria to Help Choose Between Cloud FTP and On-Premise FTP Servers for File Transfer
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...
SSH Host Keys decoupled from TLS Certificate
Summary In previous versions of Cerberus FTP Server, SSH and SSL/TLS keys were managed jointly. This meant that expiration of SSL/TLS certificates would require renewal of SSH keys. In effort to improve usability and security, we are separating the management of SSH...
Introducing “Saved Reports” feature in Cerberus FTP Server 12.4
We’ve added improvements to our reporting feature including relative dates, saved reports management, and event based scheduled reports.
Cerberus is not affected by CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105, or CVE-2021-44832 log4j vulnerabilities
Cerberus is not affected by the log4j 0-day vulnerability described by CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046.
Folder Report
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...
