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Mainframes are often derided as a relic of a bygone era, but the facts say differently. In fact, IBM – the world’s largest mainframe vendor – recently released a report that showed Z series mainframe sales are up: the revenue grew 61 percent in Q1 this year. Last year IBM reported an increase of 70 percent year over year. The list just goes on: Ninety-two of the world’s top 100 banks all of the to...
First of all, don't get all riled up because of the blog title... We actually love Open Source products like PuTTY - World's Most Popular Free SSH Client,or other free clients like WinSCP. otherwise we would not let you download them from our site. But we think there are many situations in which a top-tier commercial product cannot be beat.
Editor's note: This blog post was originally published on Febuary 4, 2020 and was updated to include details about the second patent granted for PrivX and to highlight the recognition from the KuppingerCole analysts group. Early this year, we announced that The United States Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) has granted SSH.COM a patent (US10523445), which covers secure passwordless access to h...
Editor's note: this blog was posted originally on December 19, 2019 and has been updated with more links and other tweaks. Cloud environments today require modern tools for cloud access management. Traditional PAMs, while useful for enterprises’ on-prem environments, have some limitations where cloud is involved however. Fast-moving cloud teams require elasticity and scalability that modern access...
If you think about it, passwords need to be managed just like SSH keys, and that involves three key requirements: The enforcement of complex or long passwords. Some level of enforcement around the rotation of passwords (we can argue the rotation interval can be argued another time). Controls around who has access to the password. Let’s cover each requirement in more detail. Point 1: Complex or lon...
SSH Research: Bad PAM tools lead to bad security habits. Why simpler security is safer.
Background Managing access to critical infrastructure has always been a challenge, moving to elastic cloud environments makes it even harder and more time critical. How to make sure that the right people get access to the right resources at the right time? At the same time companies and organizations are struggling with manpower and resources. They do not have the time and money to start large IT-...
We are proud to be included in KuppingerCole’s "Leadership Compass 2020: Privileged Access Management" as one of the Overall Leaders. A direct quote from the report: “The PAM market is becoming more competitive and size alone will no longer keep vendors at the top. This is especially true in a period when vendors like SSH.COM can go from Challenger to Leader in one year due to a strong focus on te...
Two more security events occurred, once again caused by having inadequately-secured standing privileges, and unmanaged SSH keys freely roaming around your IT environment. This is exactly why we strongly advocate companies either removing permanent standing privileges (like passwords) or take management of their access credentials (like SSH keys) more seriously.
Cyberattacks attacks are on the rise once again. High-profile targets like the World Health Organization (WHO) and their top officials are a lucrative target for hackers. Also, hackers got hold of 500,000 Zoom user passwords. “This is unprecedented for everyone here. We’re doing what we can to mitigate it” is a direct quote from WHO’s chief information officer (CIO), Bernardo Mariano. He also sta...
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