Do you think FTP will ever be a secure way to transfer files to and from servers? What do you believe FTP is best used for and why? No, plain old File Transfer Protocol (FTP) will never be a secure ...

File transfer protocol remains a practice within banking institutions of all sizes. But how can banking/security leaders ensure secure FTP that will protect and track critical data? These thought ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

It’s widely accepted that file transfer protocol (FTP) is the simplest way for organizations to send data across the Internet. To enhance security, many companies now use sFTP or FTP/S, the “secure” ...

You don’t need an active imagination to hack, since most often just sticking with what works yields plenty of results. Time and again, hackers repeat and refine once they've found a pattern of ...

A secure file transfer protocol, or SFTP, server is a computer system that contains files that you can remotely access via a secure connection using SSH. In a business environment, being able to make ...

One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...

Software and IT-services developer NSC on Tuesday released ShareIt FTP Pro 1.7, an FTP server designed to run on Pocket PC handhelds. ShareIt FTP enables users to transfer and manage files on Internet ...

Paula Skokowski, VP of Marketing for Accellion, and I had a lovely debate, err, conversation over the need for her company's product, a file transfer "virtualization" product. In the end, she won me ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

Do you think FTP will ever be a secure way to transfer files to and from servers? What do you believe FTP is best used for and why? No, plain old File Transfer Protocol (FTP) will never be a secure ...