Zero trust · Docker Appliance · Fully Featured

Identity-Bound Machine & Access Infrastructure.

Production-ready security components built for modern platform operations. Run our fully featured community appliances completely free in Docker—no feature gates, no user locks. Scale seamlessly when your team needs centralized enterprise compliance and auditing.

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// 25 Years of SSH & Protocol Engineering

asset · brand-anchor.statement[ verified · 2001—2026 ]

“Every day, petabytes of mission-critical data flow through secure pipelines built on Jadaptive core infrastructure.”

— Lee David Painter, Founder, Jadaptive

[ 01 / PROVEN AUTHORITY ]

25 Years of SSH & Security Engineering

We don't just use standard security libraries; we've spent over two decades writing the foundational code that powers them. Our core APIs have been trusted across banking, defense, and global enterprise infrastructure since 2002.

[ 02 / BATTLE-TESTED SCALE ]

The Engine Behind the Industry

Over half of the world's most popular Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions run our SSH and security APIs under the hood. When you deploy our community appliances, you are running the exact same production-grade code that silently moves enterprise payloads at scale every single day.

[ 03 / THE MONETIZATION LINE ]

Frictionless Compliance & Auditing

Engineered to eliminate setup friction for developers while providing absolute control for enterprise policy. Run our appliances free to solve your immediate access problems, and hook into our compliance tier when your organization scales.

Software is The Gift. Expertise is The Paywall.

THE GIFT // UN-GATED APPLIANCES

--Proprietary, ready-for-production binaries*
--Zero artificial user limits or seat caps
--No bandwidth throttling or feature handcuffs
--Engineered for DevOps teams and modern SMEs
--Community-driven support via r/jadaptive

THE PAYWALL // ENTERPRISE SCALE

->Advanced policy-driven feature modules
->Continuous, automated compliance audit trails
->Isolated multi-tenant architectures for MSPs
->Technical engineering for air-gapped installs
->Direct email support channels and active SLAs

* Licensed for internal business operations only. Commercial resale, white-labeling, or multi-tenant SaaS hosting requires an Enterprise license.

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// Available Docker Appliances

Our Docker Appliances

SSH Team

ssh-team / access-broker

Eliminate static SSH keys and permanent bastions. Deploy a streamlined gateway that issues policy-driven, short-lived signed certificates based on user identity.

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Nodal VPN

nodal-vpn / secure-remote-access

Deploy a streamlined WireGuard access appliance that puts you in control. Enforce user identity validation and policy-driven 2FA based on your team's specific access rules.

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Password Express

pwd-express / identity-vault

Deploy an un-gatekeeped appliance to automate password management. Integrates directly into Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and Google Workspace out of the box.

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Open Source · LGPL

Maverick Synergy: The Foundation of Java SSH

[ OPEN SOURCE CORE ]An easy-to-use, high-performance Java SSH framework built openly under the LGPL license. We handle the heavy lifting of core protocol engineering so you can build secure server and client applications quickly.
[ COMMERCIAL LTS ]While development happens transparently in the open-source branch, we maintain dedicated commercial LTS branches. Enterprise teams get isolated, backported security hotfixes and active support agreements without breaking production APIs.
[ BATTLE-TESTED SECURITY ]Two decades of continuous hardening protecting enterprise environments. Our core APIs power half the industry's file-transfer software, ensuring your application runs on an incredibly stable, secure foundation.

[VIEW THE GITHUB REPO][EXPLORE SDK]

// connect, upload, and execute over SSH
SshClient ssh = SshClientBuilder.create()
  .withHostname("localhost")
  .withPort(2222)
  .withUsername("root")
  .withPassword("xxxxx")
  .build();
ssh.putFile(new File("package.deb"));
ssh.executeCommand("dpkg -i package.deb");

// Supporting Open Innovation

Supporting Open Innovation

Our founder, Lee Painter, recently launched Vork, an open community project exploring a different approach to software — one where organisations build and share behaviours instead of buying more applications.

Jadaptive actively contributes engineering, infrastructure and real-world experience to the project. We develop and test new ideas using our own products and workflows, contribute code and documentation, and provide hosting for community services such as the Vork Relay.

We believe the best way to build the future is to use it ourselves.

// Ideas from The Workshop

The End of Software?

Vork started as a software project. It has become something much bigger: an exploration of how AI changes the way we build, use and think about software.

In The Workshop, founder Lee Painter writes about engineering, AI, bootstrapping and the observations that shape Vork's development. It's where product ideas begin, assumptions are challenged and the future is explored — one article at a time.

[Read The Workshop]

// ENGINEERING INSIGHTS

Featured Reading

The Evolution of Java SSH Libraries

A comprehensive tour through two decades of Java SSH libraries — from MindTerm, JSch, and J2SSH to modern powerhouses like Apache Mina SSHD and Maverick Synergy.

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How to Secure WireGuard with 2FA (The Easy Way)

WireGuard only understands public keys — not users or passwords. Here's why bolting on 2FA by hand is brittle, and how Nodal VPN adds identity in minutes.

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SSH Key Management: Best Practices and Tools

Generating, protecting, and rotating SSH keys the right way — plus how OpenSSH certificates and centralized tooling strengthen your security posture.

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