diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/ScpClient.java b/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/ScpClient.java
index 32c5194e60..3223900556 100644
--- a/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/ScpClient.java
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/ScpClient.java
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@
 import org.apache.sshd.client.keyverifier.AcceptAllServerKeyVerifier;
 import org.apache.sshd.client.keyverifier.KnownHostsServerKeyVerifier;
 import org.apache.sshd.client.keyverifier.RejectAllServerKeyVerifier;
-import org.apache.sshd.client.scp.DefaultScpClientCreator;
 import org.apache.sshd.client.session.ClientSession;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.keyprovider.ClassLoadableResourceKeyPairProvider;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.keyprovider.FileKeyPairProvider;
+import org.apache.sshd.scp.client.DefaultScpClientCreator;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
 public class ScpClient extends SftpClient {
 
     /** Logger */
-    private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ScpClient.class);
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ScpClient.class);
 
-    private org.apache.sshd.client.scp.ScpClient scpClient;
+    private org.apache.sshd.scp.client.ScpClient scpClient;
 
     /**
      * Default constructor initializing endpoint configuration.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ protected FtpMessage storeFile(PutCommand command, TestContext context) {
         try {
             scpClient.upload(FileUtils.getFileResource(command.getFile().getPath(), context).getFile().getAbsolutePath(), command.getTarget().getPath());
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            log.error("Failed to store file via SCP", e);
+            LOG.error("Failed to store file via SCP", e);
             return FtpMessage.error();
 
         }
@@ -105,12 +105,12 @@ protected FtpMessage retrieveFile(GetCommand command, TestContext context) {
         try {
             Resource target = FileUtils.getFileResource(command.getTarget().getPath(), context);
             if (!Optional.ofNullable(target.getFile().getParentFile()).map(File::mkdirs).orElse(true)) {
-                log.warn("Failed to create target directories in path: " + target.getFile().getAbsolutePath());
+                LOG.warn("Failed to create target directories in path: " + target.getFile().getAbsolutePath());
             }
 
             scpClient.download(command.getFile().getPath(), target.getFile().getAbsolutePath());
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            log.error("Failed to retrieve file via SCP", e);
+            LOG.error("Failed to retrieve file via SCP", e);
             return FtpMessage.error();
         }
 
diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/server/SftpServer.java b/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/server/SftpServer.java
index c77dbc50ce..2079292495 100644
--- a/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/server/SftpServer.java
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/server/SftpServer.java
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
 import com.consol.citrus.xml.StringResult;
 import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPCmd;
 import org.apache.ftpserver.ftplet.DataType;
-import org.apache.sshd.common.scp.ScpTransferEventListener;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.session.Session;
+import org.apache.sshd.scp.common.ScpTransferEventListener;
 import org.apache.sshd.server.session.ServerSession;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.sftp.FileHandle;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.sftp.SftpEventListener;
+import org.apache.sshd.sftp.server.FileHandle;
+import org.apache.sshd.sftp.server.SftpEventListener;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 public class SftpServer extends SshServer implements ScpTransferEventListener, SftpEventListener {
 
     /** Logger */
-    private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SftpServer.class);
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SftpServer.class);
 
     /**  This servers endpoint configuration */
     private final SftpEndpointConfiguration endpointConfiguration;
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ public FtpMessage handleMessage(FtpMessage request) {
             request.setPayload(result.toString());
         }
 
-        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
-            log.debug(String.format("Received request on ftp server: '%s':%n%s",
+        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            LOG.debug(String.format("Received request on ftp server: '%s':%n%s",
                     request.getSignal(),
                     request.getPayload(String.class)));
         }
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ public void startFolderEvent(Session session, FileOperation op, Path file, Set<P
 
     @Override
     public void initialized(ServerSession session, int version) {
-        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
-            log.debug(String.format("Received new SFTP connection: '%s'", Arrays.toString(session.getSessionId())));
+        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            LOG.debug(String.format("Received new SFTP connection: '%s'", Arrays.toString(session.getSessionId())));
         }
 
         if (!endpointConfiguration.isAutoConnect()) {
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ public void destroying(ServerSession session) {
             }
         }
 
-        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
-            log.debug(String.format("Closing FTP connection: '%s'", session.getSessionId()));
+        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            LOG.debug(String.format("Closing FTP connection: '%s'", session.getSessionId()));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/test/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/SftpClientTest.java b/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/test/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/SftpClientTest.java
index 1e447b0195..c1da45ca46 100644
--- a/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/test/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/SftpClientTest.java
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-ftp/src/test/java/com/consol/citrus/ftp/client/SftpClientTest.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 import org.apache.sshd.common.keyprovider.ClassLoadableResourceKeyPairProvider;
 import org.apache.sshd.server.SshServer;
 import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.SubsystemFactory;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.sftp.SftpSubsystemFactory;
+import org.apache.sshd.sftp.server.SftpSubsystemFactory;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.testng.Assert;
 import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ private SshServer startSftpMockServer() throws IOException {
         subsystemFactories.add(sftpSubsystemFactory);
         sshd.setSubsystemFactories(subsystemFactories);
 
+        List<String> availableSignatureFactories = sshd.getSignatureFactoriesNames();
+        availableSignatureFactories.add("ssh-dss");
+        sshd.setSignatureFactoriesNames(availableSignatureFactories);
+
         sshd.start();
 
         return sshd;
diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-ssh/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ssh/server/SshServer.java b/endpoints/citrus-ssh/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ssh/server/SshServer.java
index 3aeed6ac76..2385c62fd5 100644
--- a/endpoints/citrus-ssh/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ssh/server/SshServer.java
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-ssh/src/main/java/com/consol/citrus/ssh/server/SshServer.java
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@
 import org.apache.sshd.common.file.virtualfs.VirtualFileSystemFactory;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.keyprovider.ClassLoadableResourceKeyPairProvider;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.keyprovider.FileKeyPairProvider;
-import org.apache.sshd.common.scp.AbstractScpTransferEventListenerAdapter;
-import org.apache.sshd.common.scp.ScpTransferEventListener;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.scp.ScpCommandFactory;
+import org.apache.sshd.scp.common.AbstractScpTransferEventListenerAdapter;
+import org.apache.sshd.scp.common.ScpTransferEventListener;
+import org.apache.sshd.scp.server.ScpCommandFactory;
 import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.SubsystemFactory;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.sftp.AbstractSftpEventListenerAdapter;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.sftp.SftpEventListener;
-import org.apache.sshd.server.subsystem.sftp.SftpSubsystemFactory;
+import org.apache.sshd.sftp.server.AbstractSftpEventListenerAdapter;
+import org.apache.sshd.sftp.server.SftpEventListener;
+import org.apache.sshd.sftp.server.SftpSubsystemFactory;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ protected void startup() {
             sshd.setKeyPairProvider(resourceKeyPairProvider);
         }
 
+        List<String> availableSignatureFactories = sshd.getSignatureFactoriesNames();
+        availableSignatureFactories.add("ssh-dss");
+        sshd.setSignatureFactoriesNames(availableSignatureFactories);
+
         // Authentication
         boolean authFound = false;
         if (password != null) {
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b52fc3e89c..178bad1704 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@
     <zookeeper.version>3.7.0</zookeeper.version>
     <dropwizard.metrics.version>4.1.21</dropwizard.metrics.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.8.4</snappy.version>
-    <sshd.version>2.5.1</sshd.version>
-    <bouncycastle.version>1.68</bouncycastle.version>
+    <sshd.version>2.7.0</sshd.version>
+    <bouncycastle.version>1.69</bouncycastle.version>
     <jsch.version>0.1.55</jsch.version>
     <json.schema.validator.version>2.2.14</json.schema.validator.version>
     <hamcrest.version>2.2</hamcrest.version>