I can suggest a solution... (Score 1)

If I want my outside people to send me a file with not-so-sensitive information that isn't very useful to anyone else, I think they should be able to FTP it to me ( or SFTP or SCP or FTP with SSL if pedantic IT people were so inclined). Instead of X saying " you can't have an ftp server up because it's a security hole", the IT person should say "I'll set up a secure FTP server instead and they can send it there".

Can I make a suggestion for this? It does SFTP and FTPS with automatic encrypted storage...
http://www.standardnetworks.com/moveitdmz