Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Grimes has once again urged defense officials to improve the protection of sensitive information hosted on military servers connected to the Internet. In a Sept. 22 memo to defense leaders, Grimes singled out information systems using the file transfer protocol (FTP), peer-to-peer (P2P) configurations and other "inherently insecure" data transfer protocols as particularly vulnerable to giving away sensitive-but-unclassified military information to unauthorized users surfing the Web. Internet users commonly use FTP programs to exchange...
