http://www.pro2col.com/blog/when-is-ftp-better-than-managed-file-transfer/ News, reviews and bits and bobs of the world of file transfer Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:35:39 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.pro2col.com/blog/when-is-ftp-better-than-managed-file-transfer/comment-page-1/#comment-12 admin Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:35:39 +0000 http://www.pro2col.com/blog/?p=28#comment-12 Thanks for the comments Bob. You're right FTP is insecure as data and passwords are all plain text, it does however depend upon the solution as there are varying degrees of functionality available. You're also right that there is an overhead with the encryption of data but this is true of every solution that encrypts data before or during transit - some solutions admittedly handle it better than others. Thanks for the comments Bob. You’re right FTP is insecure as data and passwords are all plain text, it does however depend upon the solution as there are varying degrees of functionality available. You’re also right that there is an overhead with the encryption of data but this is true of every solution that encrypts data before or during transit – some solutions admittedly handle it better than others.

]]> http://www.pro2col.com/blog/when-is-ftp-better-than-managed-file-transfer/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Bob Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:11:09 +0000 http://www.pro2col.com/blog/?p=28#comment-11 Some managed file transfer solutions do provide the ability to push the files out to the remote location with their protocol or through FTP or SFTP or FTP/S/. The problem I see with FTP is the fact that FTP is a old legacy protocol which is insecure. The recent news release about a trojan stealing login credentials of over 90,000 users is unacceptable, especially in business. The other problem I have witnessed in SFTP is that is is awfully slow as the overhead of encryption is almost unusable. The many of the leading managed file transfer solutions offer many different protocol support so that you can always connect and transfer files with the other party. Some managed file transfer solutions do provide the ability to push the files out to the remote location with their protocol or through FTP or SFTP or FTP/S/. The problem I see with FTP is the fact that FTP is a old legacy protocol which is insecure. The recent news release about a trojan stealing login credentials of over 90,000 users is unacceptable, especially in business. The other problem I have witnessed in SFTP is that is is awfully slow as the overhead of encryption is almost unusable. The many of the leading managed file transfer solutions offer many different protocol support so that you can always connect and transfer files with the other party.

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