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Old 2008-01-21
cciesec2006 cciesec2006 is offline
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Default Re: Firewall changes FTP filename?

I am in the information security business and I work for a financial service
company.

Prior to me joining the company, people were using ftp for transferring
data across the network. What the hell were they thinking?

I started enforcing the company security policy, i.e. no more ftp or telnet
over the network, even internally. Everything has to be ssh version 2
with AES256-cbc/sha-1. Instead of using FTP, I force everyone to
use SecurerFTP. If SSH is available, then SFTP is also available because
SFTP is a sub-system.

This is 2008, not 1998. FTP should not be used anywhere.

my 2c
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