New Tool for Securing FTP
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Apr 24, 2008

Tumbleweed Communications, a managed file transfer and email security provider, has made available the FTP AnalyzerT, a tool providing organizations visibility into their File Transfer Protocol (FTP) traffic.

FTP has emerged as a new security attack vector, resulting in a wave of high-profile data breaches, as well as organized criminal activity, stemming from vulnerabilities in susceptible FTP servers. Recently, an underground hacker database was discovered containing more than 8,700 harvested FTP accounts, compromising FTP servers and the data housed on them. Unfortunately, many organizations are unaware of their unsecured FTP traffic, leaving them vulnerable to these types of data breaches.

Tumbleweed's FTP AnalyzerT provides IT departments with the ability to monitor FTP activity on their networks, in order to assess and address the exposure of sensitive data via FTP. Additionally, this tool generates a two-page executive-level report detailing overall volume of secured and unsecured file transfer traffic, secured and unsecured file transfer traffic over time, etc.

According to the company, one frequently overlooked process is data movement - specifically data movement using FTP that is not inherently secure.

Enterprises and users can download Tumbleweed's FTP AnalyzerT for free by signing up to receive the tool at the company's website.

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