SeeFile Software has offered an alternative to FTP servers since 2003, with a powerful collaborative media asset management and delivery software. You can secure your files with your firewall and secured http protocols. Read the full article about the file transfer challenge at businesscomputingworld.co.uk
Excerpt of the article from Business Computing World:
Many organisations have deployed File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers to transfer large files around networks and across the Internet. But, FTP was designed when security was much less of a concern. As a result, the same username and password is often shared among multiple users, representing a potential and significant security breach.
Additionally, simple FTP cannot provide audit trails which meet today's compliance and audit legislation. Enhanced FTP systems (such as SFTP, FTPS and EFTP) offer genuine improvements over conventional FTP, but require specialist programs to be installed on users' desktops -- increasing overheads for IT departments and inconvenience for users.
Data management over FTP can also be problematic: once files are uploaded into FTP directories they need to be deleted manually, so they are rarely removed. The result is sets of directories containing hundreds of files, with little information about when they should be deleted. This creates a valuable digital asset which is left unprotected for extended periods and is accessed easily by unauthorised users.
Excerpt of the article from Business Computing World:
Many organisations have deployed File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers to transfer large files around networks and across the Internet. But, FTP was designed when security was much less of a concern. As a result, the same username and password is often shared among multiple users, representing a potential and significant security breach.
Additionally, simple FTP cannot provide audit trails which meet today's compliance and audit legislation. Enhanced FTP systems (such as SFTP, FTPS and EFTP) offer genuine improvements over conventional FTP, but require specialist programs to be installed on users' desktops -- increasing overheads for IT departments and inconvenience for users.
Data management over FTP can also be problematic: once files are uploaded into FTP directories they need to be deleted manually, so they are rarely removed. The result is sets of directories containing hundreds of files, with little information about when they should be deleted. This creates a valuable digital asset which is left unprotected for extended periods and is accessed easily by unauthorised users.
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