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* Data analytics teams in the financial services sector often use sneakernets to transfer sensitive corporate information, such as ledger entries, customer data and financial statistics.

There are several reasons for this: firstly, sneakernets can provide very high security ( and possibly more importantly, they are perceived to be secure ); secondly, the volumes of data concerned are often extremely high ; and thirdly, setting up secure network links between the client business and the analytics team's facilities is often either impossible or an extremely convoluted process.