Early in my career, I learned the importance of “eating your own dog food.” Product development teams tend to focus on the methodology du jour and geeky coding activities. But this loses site of the real reason for developing software in the first place: to solve problems for customers so that you create value in […]
Diplomat MFT 8.2 improves secure file transfer workload automation
Our aim here at Coviant is to improve the usability and flexibility of secure file transfer workload automation, while lowering your operational costs. We’ve been busy on our latest release, Diplomat MFT 8.2. This post takes you through the main changes – many of which are based on your input – and details of how […]
Best Business Value award goes to … Coviant Diplomat Managed File Transfer
We’re delighted to have been recognized again as the leading vendor in the Managed File Transfer industry for creating business value. At a time when software vendors are consistently raising prices, we’re proud to have kept ours at the same level for nearly ten years. As a private company we’re under no pressure to increase […]
Is our hunger for CPU speed creating Zombies, Spectres, and Fallout (oh my!)?
In another episodic CPU security vulnerability announcement, recent reports show that Intel faces another version of the Zombieload vulnerability, part of a class of vulnerability referred to as MDS attacks. These are evolutions of the Spectre, Meltdown, and Foreshadow vulnerabilities that reared their ugly heads in 2018 – all of which had potential to leak […]
“I am excited to help shape what the future holds”
Newly appointed Managed File Transfer expert Eric Hall explains why the future is bright for Coviant Software. It was seventeen years ago that I transitioned from my career as a network and systems administrator to the world of Managed File Transfer solutions. It is my true and distinct privilege to take the next step up […]
Trigger File Based Workflows — that was easy!
Often we encounter customers who need to create a specific file-based workflow that consists of transferring files from one system to another, across any one of the numerous protocols that Diplomat MFT supports (FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S, and numerous Cloud Storage vendors) only when a file set has been fully generated. For example, a genetic sequencing […]
Coviant Gains New Leadership
It is with great pleasure that I announce that I have joined the team at Coviant, taking the reins from Coviant’s founders. There has been a lot of great work, energy, and love poured into Coviant over the past 15 years, and the Diplomat MFT product is the value leader for secure file transfer automation. […]
OpenPGP Keys Under Attack
It was bound to happen one day (though, admittedly, this is a “hindsight is 20/20” statement): the OpenPGP Standard Key Server implementation has fallen victim to attack. When the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Keyserver system allows anyone to affix changes (“attestations”) to a given key – and these never, ever get deleted. As a result, […]
Changes to Java Licensing and how Diplomat MFT is affected
Java is a widely adopted computer programming language and runtime environment that powers many software applications – including Coviant Diplomat MFT. The Java platform was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-90’s, and Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems in early 2010. Throughout its history, Java has been freely available for people to build and […]
Using SSH Client Keys and Host Keys
SSH client and host keys are used when an SFTP client attempts to connect and authenticate with an SFTP server. Client keys authenticate the user connecting to an SFTP server. Host keys ensure that the SFTP client is connected to the correct SFTP server. NOTE: Diplomat MFT always acts as the SFTP client. Using SSH […]