Security considerations for data

• Allplan supports FTPS in addition to the normal FTP protocol. When adding an online server, you can specify the protocol you want to use and indicate whether FTPS is possible (if the FTP server supports this protocol) or even essential. The normal FTP protocol does not encrypt the content, which means that data and passwords are transferred in plain text over the Internet.
• Although external users having access to the FTP server can only open the projects they are authorized to use in Allplan, they can see the names of all projects, regardless of the access rights assigned in Allplan.
• So that external users can open an Allplan online project, they require the login name and password for the FTP server. In theory, however, there is a possibility that external users log in using these details in conjunction with an FTP client. In this case, they can read and change all the files they are authorized to access on the FTP server. You should take this into consideration when setting up the FTP server.