Celebrating 30 years of SSH - the protocol and the company behind it
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SSH keys - like unruly passwords except 10 times more common
Passwords outnumber other credentials in everyday business use. But in large-scale and long-standing IT environments our customers maintain, SSH keys take the pole postion.
Passwords are susceptible to phishing and brute force attacks. Using SSH public key authentication eliminates this issue but it does bring forth a different challenge: Key governance.
Keys need governance
It is easy to set up authentication with SSH keys, they're often self-provisioned, and decentralized. This means that keys go wild and their governance is out of control. Just like in the picture. Universal SSH Key Manager (UKM) takes stock of all your keys and automates their control to make their use compliant and governed.
And then you migrate to Zero Trust.
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Migrate to Zero Trust
SSH Zero Trust Suite with PrivX technology migrates you to a Zero Trust state where we no longer have standing credentials like passwords or SSH keys. Instead, every session is both authorized and authenticated with a short-lived OpenSSH or X.509 certificate leaving no credentials to steal, misuse or manage.
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Open Source vs supported SSH
Many leading organizations choose the original SSH solution, Tectia, for critical communications because it provides:
- 24/7 support
- Full support for public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Cross-platform (UNIX, LINUX, Windows…) interoperability
- Direct access to IBM mainframe data sets with seamless conversion, direct access to automation tools, and parallel batch jobs.
- Zero Trust authentication based on x.509 or Open SSH certificates to targets.
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Crypto agile for quantum-safe future
With Tectia, you can choose the ciphers and algorithms used. Take your business applications, wrap them in a quantum safe tunnel, and ensure that the confidential data encrypted today is still safe in the years to come -- even in the age of cryptographically relevant quantum computers.
