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NIST Publication 7966 Is Now Official. SSH Keys are critical to enterprises' networks and must be managed and protected properly to ensure businesses are not impacted from unseen risks.

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Security is a major focus point at VCE. Every Vblock™ System shipped contains built-in security features. Now that security is even further bolstered with a tested and validated, Vblock™ Ready solution from SSH Communications Security. In partnership VCE and SSH introduced a new degree of security hardening with checks and balances across the virtualized workload environment.

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Learn what questions to ask and how to verify that SSH is used safely and securely within the Card Holder Data Environment

IT auditors are challenged on several fronts. They face the challenge of keeping up with complex and evolving security standards and regulatory mandates. They are also challenged to stay current with rapidly changing technology and emerging threats. Finally, they need to understand how to relate the current state of IT technology, governance, people and processes to the security and risk management intent of regulatory requirements.

This requires the skills and knowledge to connect the specifics of what and how IT technology is deployed within an organization to the security requirements of the audit. Many auditors and security professionals have paid little attention to Secure Shell, but that is changing.

SSH has impact across the scope of PCI DSS requirements. This “cheat sheet” provides auditors with a basic investigation guidance for PCI DSS Audits. As part of any PCI DSS audit, the auditor should determine if and how Secure Shell is used in the CDE. Auditors have a responsibility to do basic investigation as to whether and how Secure Shell is used within the CDE and to perform the necessary validations that emerge from the investigation.

Banks, insurance companies, brokerages, credit unions, etc. all use Secure Shell for business processes critical to day-to-day operations and for bringing new services online. However, Secure Shell is often viewed as “part of the plumbing” and typically does not get much attention from Compliance, Audit or Security. This mindset is rapidly changing. Poor controls over Secure Shell environments have contributed to costly data breaches and compliance violations. This white paper provides basic information on security and compliance issues as well as best practices for management and controls over Secure Shell environments within the financial services industry. Secure Shell is ubiquitous within the financial services industry. Banks, insurance companies, brokerages, credit unions, etc. all use Secure Shell for business processes critical to day-to-day operations and for bringing new services online. However, Secure Shell is often viewed as “part of the plumbing” and typically does not get much attention from Compliance, Audit or Security. This mindset is rapidly changing. Poor controls over Secure Shell environments have contributed to costly data breaches and compliance violations. This white paper provides basic information on security and compliance issues as well as best practices for management and controls over Secure Shell environments within the financial services industry.

Gain Back the Control of One of the Most Significant Hidden Threats to Your Enterprise Security

Sloppy management of SSH authentication keys risks catastrophic IT failure Most organizations have no process for managing, removing, and changing access-granting SSH keys.

This violates SOX, FISMA, PCI, and HIPAA, all which require proper control of access to servers and proper termination of access.

This white paper focuses on SSH user key remediation as a process which all organizations utilizing SSH should be aware of and consider implementing. It will outline a basic process and set of tools which can be utilized to identify the existing trust relationships in your environment, bring legacy keys under control, and automate the creation, deployment, rotation and removal of keys.

Trust is no longer a guessing game! Learn how to gain instant visibility and to control on encrypted 3rd party privileged access within your network.

Enterprises rarely apply a reliable audit or monitoring capability to privileged user activity. Because these activities are secured by encryption, they are opaque to standard layered defences such as next generation firewalls and data loss prevention systems.

As a consequence, a rogue administrator can steal company information, alter critical data and damage systems. Outsourcing, business partnerships, and supply chain integration expand the risk out from the organization to third parties, bringing matters of trust, auditability and data loss prevention in a growing role in security compliance and risk management. Privileged access channels are also attractive vectors for external criminal entities to steal information and disrupt operations.

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Best Practices Guide for PCI Gap Assessment

As with any compliance framework we face, and we know many exist today, it is best we assess our state of compliance before an auditor arrives at the proverbial door. PCI DSS is one framework many payment organizations are dealing with on a day to day basis to help protect and safeguard their customerspayment information.

SSH celebrates 20 years since Secure Shell was developed with a new corporate logo.

This year, SSH Communications Security celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Secure Shell protocol, which was invented by our Chief Innovation Officer Tatu Ylönen. Our history makes us one of the pioneers of cybersecurity, but our innovative thinking keeps us in the forefront of the field.

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Growth in M2M Processes Requires a Fresh Approach to Security

Every day, countless invisible machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions and processes power automation of critical business and operational processes across industries. These M2M transactions include server to server processes, inter and intra data center communications, cloud services integration, and embedded device to data center communications.

However, even as automated processes become the dominant mode of computing – outstripping the traditional model of interactive human-to-computer transactions – M2M security is often overlooked or misunderstood.

The results of a study conducted by Forrester Consulting found that the rise of machine-to-machine (M2M) connections has far outstripped the awareness of organizations about how best to secure them, resulting in a misalignment of security and compliance priorities that is placing organizations at risk.

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SSH Best Practices featuring Gartner Research Findings

Many IT departments have taken great strides in controlling access to critical applications, so it may come as a surprise that the vast majority of enterprises still don't have proper server access controls in place - or are even aware of the size and scope of their problem.

The reason is simple. While widely used and considered a critical component of IT operations, most organizations have overlooked their Secure Shell (SSH) infrastructure when implementing their identity and access management (IAM) strategy.

Recent research from Gartner and SSH Communications Security has revealed this area to be of critical importance and this report provides a high-level description of the Identity and Access Management Key Initiative. CIOs, IT leaders and technical professionals can use this guide to understand what they need to do to ensure secure access to critical resources and support critical business processes.

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Enterprises Can Be Exposed to Data Breaches, Compliance Violations and Excessive Overheard Costs Resulting From Manual SSH Deployment Processes.

Lower Your Risk of Data Breach, Address Compliance Violations and Reduce Costs With Effective SSH Central Management and Control As organizations deploy SSH across the IT infrastructure the process of key creation and distribution to target servers is repeated many, many times. A large server infrastructure is likely to have hundreds of thousands (sometimes millions) of public keys enabling access to system, user and application accounts. SSH keys can be used by attackers to penetrate the IT infrastructure. The compromise of one SSH key can be leveraged to configure hard-to-notice

backdoors, to bypass privileged access auditing and to perpetrate large scale attacks and data breaches. This white paper discusses how a lack of central management and control can create various negative impacts within an enterprise environment and introduces some Secure Shell best practices that address the risk, compliance and cost problems many organizations face.

PAM in the Cloud Made Easy

Cloud computing in Asia Pacific is growing constantly in importance, increasing demand for cloud security. In mid-August, we participated in CloudSec Hong Kong, one of the leading cloud security conferences in Asia Pacific.

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Download Trial License for SSH's Universal SSH Key Manager and gain better compliancy

Deploying Universal SSH Key Manager has never been this quick – just request an evaluation license and start managing keys today!

Fill in the form to request your license and immediately receive it in your email inbox. To further help configuring the trial appliance, you will also receive the installation manual in the email.

Download Universal SSH Key Manager -Trial License now and get your SSH Keys under control!

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