SSH Communications Security

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SSH Communications Security

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legal form AG
founding 1995
Seat Helsinki
management Tatu Ylönen (CEO)
Number of employees 59 (September 2012)
sales € 8.1 million (2011)
Branch software
Website www.ssh.com

SSH Communications Security is a company that develops and sells software for the confidentiality of real-time communications. It is one of the world's leading providers of security solutions for corporations, financial institutions and authorities. From April 2010 to November 2011 the company operated under the name Tectia . Since November 28, 2011, the company has been back under the original name SSH Communications Security.

Companies

The company was founded by Tatu Ylönen at the end of 1995 to market the Secure Shell he had developed . It is based in Helsinki and is listed there on the stock exchange. Since September 2011 Tatu Ylönen has been CEO of SSH Communications Security again.

According to the company's own presentation on its website, over 3000 companies worldwide currently use the solutions from SSH Communications Security, including 40% of the Fortune Global 500 companies using its product solutions .

Products

With Secure Shell , the company has created an SSH client that is still very popular with Windows users and is free of charge for non-commercial use . The program contributed significantly to the acceptance of SSH among end users and celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2007, but is no longer actively developed today.

SSH Communications Security currently offers solutions for the confidentiality of real-time communication both in the client / server environment and in the mainframe area.

With the products SSH Server for z / OS and SSH Server for z / Linux , SSH Communications offers security solutions that enable secure data transfer in SFTP format for the mainframe area through the use of SSH and thus address the issue of compliance.

In July 2012, the official launch of the new SSH products Universal SSH Key Manager and CryptoAuditor took place at Black Hat USA.

With the Universal SSH Key Manager , SSH Communications Security offers companies an easily scalable, interacting solution that is aimed at both OpenSSH and commercial SSH customers and helps you to save time and money by reducing the complexity of manual administration of your enterprise environments and at the same time reduces the risk of unauthorized internal and external access and ensures that the issue of compliance is successfully addressed. The background for the development of this new SSH solution was the situation that SSH keys never expire, which, even with normal employee fluctuation within a company, ensures that the overview of the existing SSH keys decreases and at the same time the risk of unwanted access with the help of an old one SSH keys that are actually no longer used increases without this being perceived as unauthorized access, since the SSH key is still valid. As a consequence, there is a critical security gap in the room that has not received much attention so far.

With CryptoAuditor , SSH Communications Security is aimed at companies looking for a transparent and centralized real-time monitoring & audit solution that offers you the opportunity to ensure the traceability of the activities of your employees without impairing the work of the remote administrators, as well as their administrators To offer the possibility of being able to prove their innocence at any time. This solution was developed with the background of reducing potential security threats that could emanate from trustworthy insiders (e.g. administrators), meeting current and future compliance requirements and reducing the costs associated with implementation and administration.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. Tectia Corporation to Operate as SSH Communications Security . SSH. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  3. SSH Communications Security Gains Momentum Following Universal SSH User Key Manager Launch . SSH. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  4. SSH Communications Security Launches CryptoAuditor: Minimally-Invasive Enterprise Privileged User Access Auditing Solution . SSH. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  5. How Secure is your shell? . ZDNet. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  6. Hackers break into two FreeBSD Project servers using stolen SSH keys . computerworld. Retrieved June 27, 2017.