Best File Transfer for Windows: Evaluating SFTP vs. FTPS Pros and Cons
Choosing a file transfer solution for Windows can be a challenge. The two most popular options: SFTP and FTPS, each have advantages and disadvantages that can impact your business. This blog post will compare SFTP versus FTPS to help you understand which protocol best...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...Which File Transfer Protocols Should You Support?
Introduction to Secure File Transfer 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: The venerable File Transfer...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...On-Premise vs. Cloud: What’s the Best Option for a File Transfer Server?
Secure file transfer has come a long way from its creation in the 1970s, and its latest evolution has seen a shift towards cloud-based file transfer. But are cloud-hosted file servers better options than on-premise file servers? Each file server hosting method has its...How To Back Up Your FTP Server Configuration And Users
It’s no easy job managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure of an organization. System administrators regularly worry about many different aspects of their IT organization: downtime, server failures, upgrade issues and capacity problems, and more. Unfortunately,...What is FIPS 140-2 and is It Right for Me? How to Make FTP More Secure
One of our most-visited help articles is “How can I make Cerberus FTP Server secure?” In that article, we mention FIPS 140-2, but we still get quite a few emails from customers asking whether they should be using FIPS 140-2 mode in Cerberus. So let’s dig into...
Is FTP Secure? How you can mitigate the risks of using File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol that is used to transfer files and data between a client and a server on the same network. Once a standard protocol but now considered outdated due to improved and updated versions, FTP has inherent...
FTPS vs HTTPS: Which is the Right Tool for Secure File Transfer?
Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are both methods that allow you to transfer files between two systems. Both protocols have overlapping functions, and with Cerberus FTP Server Enterprise, you can use either method to...
How Does TCP/IP relate to FTP? Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol explained
The Internet Protocol Suite, better known as TCP/IP, is a set of communications rules that allow two or more network devices to communicate. TCP: creates the link that allows the devices to connect and determines how data is packaged into smaller packets before...Guide to SSL: What is an SSL Certificate and How Does it Make Your Website Secure?
What is SSL? SSL (Secured Sockets Layer), and its successor TLS (Transport Layer Security), are cryptographic protocols used to secure and encrypt sensitive information like credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, and other private data sent over the internet....
SCP vs SFTP: Which is better?
SCP and SFTP are both used for transferring files, but one or the other protocol may be a better fit for your needs, depending on your requirements for speed, security and functionality. This article compares SCP and SFTP to help you choose which secure file transfer...
