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sftp still used extensively in banking, payments, transferring financial data, or datasets like student information from school districts or information on lawy
by hosh 5y ago
sftp still used extensively in banking, payments, transferring financial data, or datasets like student information from school districts or information on lawyers from bar associations.
Back in 1999, in one of my first professional gigs, people were still using ftp for sensitive data for automated data transfers.
Rsync+ssh would be great, but enterprise IT is slow to change.
AWS has hosted sftp backed by S3, and it's going to stick around for a while.
- Bluecobra 5y agoSadly in 2021, ftp is still used extensively in financial services for stuff like clearing stock trades. I wish more institutions use sftp/scp for this and stop relying on allowing specific IP addresses for security.