SSH is a powerful access protocol that was developed some 20 years ago by Tatu Ylonen of Finland. The protocol’s primary function is to provide trusted access and encrypt communication in transit to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Once a connection is established, SSH effectively creates an encrypted tunnel to facilitate secure communication between two points. Since it’s development, …
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In my job at SSH, I meet with IT executives in many large businesses and government agencies. Aside from their initial surprise that there is an actual company behind SSH, there is one question comes up most often, namely which functional group within IT should own SSH? The reason that this is such a struggle …
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Yahoo has been making a lot of news lately and not for good reason. Marisa Myers failed attempt to turn the company around which resulted in the sale of the company to Verizon for 4.8 Billion has been placed in jeopardy due to its inability to protect and secure its users data. In September of …
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I recently met with a customer that is using username and password instead of keys to control SSH access. For the past several months I’ve been so engrossed with solving SSH key management issues that I was somewhat taken aback by the approach. Upon further discussions with some experts on the subject, I’ve come to …
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