SFTPPlus on Linux and macOS runs under a dedicated system user, created during installation, not to be used for anything else.

The SFTPPlus team is delighted to have helped the Twisted open source project with the migration of the ticket management system from Trac to GitHub Issues.

A drawer with file tabs.

When closely investigating managed file transfers, pushing a file to a remote FTP server turns out to be just a phase in a series of interlinked processes.

Once the file arrives on the FTPS server, it is read and further processed. The next step might involve downloading the file or …

Computer security illustration.

It is common practice to secure a file transfer server using firewall rules which only allow incoming connections from trusted partners.

Let's assume you have a US partner named "ACME Inc", connecting to your server from IP 1.1.1.1 using the user acme-inc, and another German partner called …

For some time, we have been maintaining an MIT-licensed GitHub repository to ease the creation and running of SFTPPlus Docker instances.

Whether you are already a customer of ours, or currently evaluating SFTPPlus, head over to our GitHub repository, clone it, then follow the instructions to run an SFTPPlus instance …

Docker containers have been a constant presence in the worlds of DevOps and cloud computing. We have recognized this only through a passing mention in our product page that SFTPPlus can run in a Docker container.

However, we have not gone beyond that, until now.

Now announcing SFTPPlus and Docker

We are pleased to announce …

As of April 2016, the European Parliament and Council adopted a new legislation that will replace, in May 2018, the old personal data protection law for European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EAA) residents. The new regulation is called The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The purpose of the …