FTP Security FAIL

One third of businesses totally fail to encrypt their sensitive data transfers. That's the conclusion of a new survey into file transfer security which noted the huge disparities in attitudes towards data security in general and data security during transfer. According to the 2009 File Transfer Security Survey undertaken by managed file transfer solutions developer Ipswitch, while some 82% of organisations engage in the exchange of sensitive data only 64% actually encrypt that data either when it is at rest or being transferred.