Cerberus FTP Server

Cerberus FTP Server at a glance

Cerberus FTP Server is a commercial Windows server application that provides file transfers over FTP, FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S and WebDAV. Administrators use it to set up secure, auditable data exchange for internal and external partners, manage users and permissions, and meet requirements around encryption, logging and compliance. Common use cases include protected exchange with service providers and automated transfers between systems.

The vendor releases new editions at manageable intervals and accompanies them with detailed release notes and blog announcements. Updates regularly include, alongside new features, fixes to bundled libraries and address security vulnerabilities, which is why applying them promptly is especially important for a service exposed to the outside.

Before an update, the release notes should be checked for changes to protocols, certificates and default settings, because the service is exposed in a security-critical way. It is advisable to back up the configuration, plan a maintenance window for restarting the service, and afterwards verify that connections, user rules and certificates still work unchanged.