What Mugatu Has to Say About FTP Security Concerns February 28, 2008
Posted by David Fontaine in News.Tags: EDI, Electronic Data Interchange, File Transfer Protocol, FTP, Managed File Transfer, MFT
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System iNetwork’s John Grist recently blogged about a Sterling Commerce-commissioned study on File Transfer Protocol with Hilty Moore& Associates. Among other interesting nuggets, the research found that FTP use is up dramatically despite the fact that 93% experienced delivery stoppages at least 20% of the time. And this is despite known security concerns with FTP according to the article? Interesting timing that fellow Inovis blogger, Jon Gatrell, today posted on another story that hackers are sharing user IDs and passwords for FTP sites from major Fortune 500 companies.
To quote Will Ferrell’s character from Zoolander, Mugatu, “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” So people are paying good money to send documents (some very sensitive) via a fairly insecure and inconsistent mechanism? Shows you that there clearly is a real market for these solutions, but there are better mousetraps that delivery more security, more governance, more reliability and more audit capabilities – Managed File Transfer is what it’s called.
I know I’ve offered links to this Gartner webcast in previous posts, but I’m selling knowledge here not products (a no-no of the blogosphere ) You can check out an Inovis-sponsored webcast featuring L. Frank Kenney, research director with Gartner, titled “Managed File Transfer: From Tactical to Strategic.” Frank also chimes in on the System iNetwork blog from Grist (so make sure to scroll down).
Knowledge will set you free!
