DUBLIN, Ohio — File transfer protocol is one of the original means of moving information around the Web and is increasing in use despite concerns about security and reliability, a new survey showed.
Hilty Moore & Associates surveyed more than 100 organizations across a range of industries–from financial services to retail, manufacturing and government–and said 64% of the respondents reported using FTP more in 2007 than they did the year before.
Meanwhile, 93% said they experienced delivery stoppages or incomplete transmissions with FTP as much as 20% of the time, and respondents commented that they would be interested in investigating other options for file transfers.
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The survey also found that 84% of respondents have either the same or an increased level of concern about the security and reliability of the file transfers as they did a year earlier.
Sixty percent of the respondents said they were in the process of stepping up their encryption efforts with plans to encrypt 80% of their transfers by 2008.
However, security breaches typically occur at the point of origin or destination by hacking the FTP servers that house the data–places untouched by "on the wire" encryption, according to the survey sponsor, Sterling Commerce (www.sterlingcommerce.com).
The AT&T subsidiary is a provider of data delivery solutions, including Sterling Managed File Transfer, which it markets as a secure alternative to traditional FTP.
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