 From its inception, FTP has made moving large volumes of bulk data between any two entities — including file servers, applications, and trading partners — possible.However, FTP (and other communication protocols such as HTTP and SMTP) do not, on their own, provide a way to secure or manage the payload or the transmission.Yet, regardless of the lack of security and management capabilities, many companies have continued to transport large batches of structured and unstructured data using these protocols.