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May 06, 2008
Turn a negative into a positive!
Here's some good insight on FTP all the way from an Australia. Wayne Saunders shares his concerns with the traditional FTP protocol and offers some suggestions to protect the security of your file transfers.
"Some of the negatives about FTP is that it isn't very secure. Passwords and such are sent in clear text, so people looking in could find out passwords easily.
To minimize these problems with security you have to use SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) or FTPS (FTP over SSL) which add on more security and encryption when transferring files.
So, even though FTP is one of the most common ways to transfer files over the internet, it does have its problems with security and efficiency, but it does have its advantages with being able to resume transfers and how it doesn't discriminate against Operating System or computer platform."
I think that Wayne is 100% right. These days it's hard to go a whole week without hearing about a new data breach or security vulnerability... There are bad people out in cyberspace who are on the prowl for unsecured victims.
Surf Safe. Take precautions. And do me a favor and always use encrypted file transfer protocols like SSL / FTPS and SSH / SFTP!
Posted by Hugh Garber at May 6, 2008 04:06 PM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page
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