Re: FTP services for Vendor access

[Ken Connelly <ken.connelly () UNI EDU>]

Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:02:10 PDT, Keith Furrow said:
>
>
> > I've been charged with investigating our deployment of FTP services
> > used to share data with vendors, contractors, other institutions,
> > etc.,  and have some questions for the group:
>
> Question 0:
>
> Has your organization heaved FTP over the side and make vendors use scp/ssh
> instead?
Yes.  We block inbound plain-text FTP, telnet, POP3, and IMAP at our
border.  We also block those same plain-text protocols within our core
except for segments where we control all physical access to the relevant
switches.

- ken