VISA wants to strength File Transfer data security for open file delivery Endpoints. And accordingly, they introduced an approach to support the migration of VisaNet Direct Exchange endpoints to a secure file transfer protocol (FTP) and they will discontinue its support of unencrypted FTP connections effective 30 September 2016. So, Any VisaNet endpoint that uses unencrypted (or “plain”) FTP to exchange files with Visa via the Open File Delivery (OFD) service must migrate to a different, secure FTP by this date, The objectives form which this project is emanated.