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Ensuring You Have Secure FTP Sessions

Some IHR clients have FTP (file transfer protocol) access to their websites in order to update their own web pages. Please review the security issues below if you have FTP access to your IHR-hosted website.

When IHR provides a username and password to you to access your website on the IHR server, you will need to be responsible for securing that access. As you are probably aware, there are hackers on the Internet constantly searching for open websites that they can break into.

Please do the following to ensure that you have secure FTP sessions:

1. Use virus protection software on your computer. This is the most important action item. Although this is not widely known, there are now malicious viruses that can do the following:
   
   a) the virus breaks into a user's personal computer and searches inside their Windows Registration Database for stored FTP access information (e.g. username and password).
   
   b) the virus then uses its own built-in FTP program, gains access to the website with the user's access information, and uploads malicious files to the website.
   
   c) unsuspecting users then come to the website and the malicious files are automatically downloaded to their personal computers. Their computers are now compromised and the virus now searches their computers for FTP information to access other web servers.
    
2. If you are willing, don't store your password inside your FTP program. When you do that, it will most likely be stored in the Windows Registration Database where it can be found by a malicious virus. You can enter your password each time you use the FTP program. If you think you might forget your password, you can store your password(s) in a text file hidden on your computer.
    
3. Do not share your password with anyone, unless they need the access.
    
4. Do not leave your password around your office on pieces of paper or sticky notes where someone else (e,g, a potential thief) might find it.
    
5. IHR uses passwords that are a combination of letters and numbers and that are long enough so that they are difficult for hackers to try to guess.
    

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