Business Purpose for SSH/SFTP
When you use SSH/SFTP instead of FTP, the entire login session, including transmission of password, is encrypted, making it much more difficult for an outsider to observe and collect passwords.
SSH/SFTP provides an alternative means to exchange information with trading partners. The SSH/SFTP communications protocol has greater security than FTP. During an FTP session, your user name and password are transmitted in clear text. An eavesdropper can easily log your FTP user name and password.
By encrypting all traffic, SSH/SFTP effectively eliminates eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks.
The SFTP Client adapter enables you to exchange files with trading partners who have SFTP servers. You can:
- Establish and terminate sessions
- Identify, navigate, and list the contents of directories
- Move files to, from, and within directories
- Delete files
The SFTP Server adapter enables trading partners with SFTP clients or SCP clients to exchange files with Mailboxes in Sterling B2B Integrator. To an external user, the Mailbox is a directory on which the user has privileges.