Confused by the difference between FTP and FTPS?
Basically, FTPS is a secure flavor of the basic FTP protocol.
FTPS uses the SSL protocol to encrypt file transfers to help ensure that they remain safe and confidential.
Here’s a blog post by Natala that highlights FTPS a bit more: “FTP/SSL is a name used to encompass a number of ways in which FTP software can perform secure file transfers. Each way involves the use of a SSL/TLS layer below the standard FTP protocol to encrypt the control and/or data channels. It should not be confused with either SSH file transfer protocol (SFTP, or FTP over SSH).”
The WS_FTP Professional secure file transfer client lets you choose between transferring files over basic FTP and secure FTPS (SSL) and SFTP (SSH) protocols. You get the ability to use all three file transfer protocols in one software program!
And for folks running your own server, the WS_FTP Server with SSH enables transfers over FTP, FTPS (SSL) & SFTP (SSH) as well.